NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With guidance and training, certain patients on long-term anticoagulant therapy can safely monitor their own INR levels and make dose adjustments as needed,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After percutaneous coronary intervention via the femoral artery, use of arterial closure devices rather than manual compression reduces the rate of major bleeding…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A low-dose oral contraceptive is effective in relieving primary dysmenorrhea, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Japan and…
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…
