NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men who receive radiation treatment for prostate cancer are at greater risk of hip fracture, a new study in the March 16 issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative antibiotics started more than 24 hours before cardiac surgery may be more effective than shorter-duration prophylaxis in preventing sternal surgical site infections,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing more lymph nodes from patients with lymph node positive renal cell carcinoma meant fewer died of the disease, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sodium bicarbonate isn’t any more effective than sodium chloride at preventing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with diabetic nephropathy, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the short term, uterine artery embolization (UAE) for symptomatic uterine fibroids has advantages over hysterectomy or myomectomy in terms of faster recovery,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children undergoing tonsillectomy, preoperative injection of lidocaine plus bupivacaine, with or without clonidine, does not reduce the use of analgesics in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Screening pregnant women for chlamydia using urine samples is just as accurate as when cervical secretions are used, suggests a new study published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hydrocortisone therapy may lower the risk of nosocomial pneumonia in severe trauma patients, according to new research from France. The study also found…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is the best choice for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who are also diabetic, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuter Health) – With the availability of more sensitive troponin I assays, lowering the diagnostic threshold for detection of myocardial necrosis from 0.20 to 0.05 ng/mL…
