NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with sore throat, signs and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis, either alone or in combination, cannot be used to definitively diagnose or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diuretic use is associated with an increased incidence of gout, an association mediated by increases in serum urate levels, according to findings published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone, Reckitt-Benckiser) helps curb prescription opioid dependence, but counseling does little to boost success rates, according to results of a randomized controlled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery provides no added benefit over best medical therapy for preventing recurrent stroke in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic internal carotid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For stable patients with left main coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a “reasonable” alternative to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vandetanib shows encouraging action against advanced and metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma, researchers report in an October 24th on-line paper in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic coronary artery disease, prasugrel overcomes high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity more effectively than doubling the dose of clopidogrel, results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More intensive blood glucose lowering won’t reduce the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, and when achieved with a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thoracoscopic unilateral extended thymectomy (TUET) is “the best treatment option” for patients undergoing surgery for nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, clinicians from Romania conclude in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older patients with advanced hematologic malignancies and comorbid conditions can successfully undergo nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), results of a new study…
