NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An analysis of the sensitivity of several diagnostic tests for histoplasmosis indicates that combining antigen and antibody testing, as well as culture and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For best results, laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with acute cholecystitis should be performed within 48 hours of hospital admission, a Swiss team reports.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining an EGFR-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitor with conventional chemotherapy does not seem to be a good treatment strategy for lung cancer. According to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A novel glucose-lowering drug, dapagliflozin, improves glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes already on metformin, and it promotes significant weight loss,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Algorithms based on procalcitonin (PCT) measurements reduce the use of antibiotics without jeopardizing patient safety, according to a review of randomized clinical trials.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with primary open-angle glaucoma benefit from more frequent visual field testing, according to results of a study published online August 8…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) stress perfusion imaging for possible ischemia provides “robust” prognostic information regardless of patient sex, new research indicates. In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About one in four children adopted in the US from outside the country have at least one intestinal parasite, and while the likelihood…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A regimen of pre-seasonal and seasonal sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) for grass pollen allergy reduces symptoms by more than a third after three pollen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of vasopressin provides no overall benefit in the resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients, but it may improve outcomes in a subset of…
