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,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the setting of primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST segment-elevated MI, use of drug-eluting stents (DES) rather bare metal stents (BMS) is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A combined oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate and 17beta-estradiol (E2) taken in a 24–4-day regimen is somewhat more effective in preventing pregnancy than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with NYHA class II heart failure are less likely to develop atrial fibrillation or flutter when given eplerenone, according to findings appearing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients given pegfilgrastim experience less bone pain if they take naproxen 500 mg twice daily for about a week, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding cladribine to the standard induction regimen for adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) increases the complete remission rate and consequent survival, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of small bowel obstruction (SBO) developing because of adhesions following abdominal or pelvic surgery is generally lower with laparoscopic procedures than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sleeve gastrectomy leads to significant improvement or resolution of type 2 diabetes in morbidly obese patients, and is much more effective than intensive…
