NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tonsillectomy is an effective treatment for children with dysphagia related to enlarged tonsils, according to results of a prospective cohort study. Removing the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Results of a retrospective study confirm that the Rule of 7’s prediction tool accurately identifies children who are unlikely to have Lyme meningitis, investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vaginal progesterone given to pregnant women with mid-trimester sonographic evidence of short cervix reduces the risk of preterm birth and neonatal complications and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Pooled data from four relatively small but high-quality prospective randomized controlled studies suggest an advantage to intracoronary (IC) over intravenous (IV) administration of abciximab…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Treatment for up to 24 months with fesoterodine (Toviaz; Pfizer Inc) may yield sustained improvement in bladder problems and health-related quality of life in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with breast cancer metastatic to bone, treatment with zoledronic acid to reduce skeletal complications does not prolong progression-free survival or overall…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In neonatal resuscitation, routing of a central venous catheter via the umbilical vein can be reliably guided by thoraco-abdominal X-ray or ultrasound, while…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lowering blood pressure in patients with prehypertensive blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of stroke, according the results of a meta-analysis reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After stabilization with aripiprazole therapy, children with bipolar disorder may continue to benefit from maintenance treatment with the atypical antidepressant, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients have chronic low back pain or sciatica, getting an MRI before giving an epidural steroid injection does not improve outcomes and…
