NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In African Americans with moderate-to-severe asthma, treatment for a year with an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol is safe and reduces asthma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a new meta-analysis indicate that for patients with atrial fibrillation, treatment with one of the new oral anticoagulants rather than warfarin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients on maintenance prasugrel (Effient) therapy having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a dose of 60 mg in the peri-PCI period achieves “faster…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the investigational agent perampanel to concomitant antiepilepsy therapy reduces seizure frequency in patients with refractory partial-onset seizures, according to the results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily low-dose aspirin reduces not only cardiovascular mortality but also nonvascular mortality – and cancer mortality in particular — after relatively short duration…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After about a year, patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis have the same improvement in disease activity whether treated initially with methotrexate plus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The sedative effects of benzodiazepine exposure through breast milk appear to present minimal risk of central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants, results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A systematic review and meta-analysis provides “reasonable” support for the current practice of giving adjuvant therapy to patients with resected biliary tract cancer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Paracervical block is effective in decreasing pain associated with first-trimester surgical abortion, suggest results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Portland, Oregon.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients having coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have fewer postoperative heart rhythm complications and recover faster if they are pretreated with a statin,…
