NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chronic renal disease appears to reduce platelet responsiveness to clopidogrel, according to a Korean research team. Furthermore, increasing the dose of clopidogrel does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical cancer screening should begin when a woman turns 21, according to newly revised evidence-based guidelines issued November 20 by the American College…
ORLANDO (Reuters Health) – In a head-to-head comparison, extended-release niacin outperformed ezetimibe in shrinking carotid intima-media thickness in patients who were already taking statins, raising yet another red…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Catheter-directed therapy is an effective treatment for acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE) and the risk of major complications is relatively small, the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with bradycardia and a normal ejection fraction, biventricular pacing can prevent the adverse ventricular remodeling and drop in ejection fraction seen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of masked hypertension, often in association with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), research findings indicate.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to its 2002 guidelines, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is now recommending that mammographic screening for breast cancer…
Marsha Guess, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Yale University, discusses overactive bladder treatment with newer drugs such as trospium chloride, and reminds physicians…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that tenofovir 300 mg-emtricitabine 200 mg (TDF-FTC) is comparable to abacavir 600 mg-lamivudine 300 mg (ABC-3TC) in anti-HIV efficacy but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in US cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy has increased 10-fold since their introduction, yet there’s been no associated decline in…
