NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are administered sodium bicarbonate before emergency coronary procedures might be less likely to suffer contrast-induced nephropathy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Encouraging results with total arch replacement combined with stented “elephant trunk” implantation suggest that this strategy should become a new standard of management…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women with a singleton pregnancy, prior preterm birth, and a short cervix, cerclage significantly reduces the risk of another preterm delivery, as…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recovery is faster after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction when standard rehabilitation is enhanced with neuromuscular electrical stimulation delivered by an integrated thigh-sleeve…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As well as improving HbA1c, continuous glucose monitoring reduces the time spent in hypoglycemia for children and adults with type 1 diabetes on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The vasodilatory effect of inhaled nitric oxide does nothing to ease the severity of vaso-occlusive crises in patients with sickle cell disease. That…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even with routine use of stents and thienopyridines such as clopidogrel for elective percutaneous coronary intervention, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs) such as abciximab…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Wound complications occur twice as often when transverse cesarean sections are closed with staples rather than subcuticular sutures, the results of a meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis accompanied by nasal polyps, treatment first with oral steroids followed by topical steroids is more effective than just…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Chronically HIV-infected individuals show brain damage even when the disease is otherwise stable because of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), according to a…
