NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For cough suppression during flexible bronchoscopy, the combination of the sedative propofol and the opiate hydrocodone is safe and works better in terms…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The majority of women who become pregnant after in vitro fertilization (IVF) receives progesterone throughout the first trimester, but that may not be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study provides more evidence that influenza vaccine reduces major cardiovascular events in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women treated for early, endocrine-responsive breast cancer, adjuvant therapy with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole leads to better overall survival than does tamoxifen,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -– A point-of-care test for beta-hydroxybutyrate in capillary blood is more specific than a urine dipstick for ketones in identifying diabetic ketoacidosis in emergency-department…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating high-risk retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) early, before threshold severity is reached, preserves peripheral vision with relatively little reduction in visual field extent.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ribavirin added to pegylated interferon more than doubles the sustained viral response rate in children with chronic hepatitis C, a multicenter team reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For initial treatment of HIV-1 infection, once daily atazanavir plus ritonavir and once-daily efavirenz provide comparable antiviral efficacy when used with either abacavir/lamivudine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral contraceptives are just as effective as a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist for relieving pelvic pain due to endometriosis, results of a small…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A D-dimer level below 500 ng/mL reliably rules out acute aortic dissection, although the positive predictive value of a higher concentration is quite…
