NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with nasal polyposis, polypectomy is a “valuable alternative” to radical ethmoidectomy, a French team reports in the February issue of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women undergoing emetogenic surgical procedures are less likely to have postoperative nausea and vomiting when treated with ondansetron plus casopitant than with ondansetron…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) restenosis may be better managed with balloon angioplasty using a paclitaxel-coated balloon (PEB) catheter rather than conventional balloon…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have better glycemic control and less nausea when exenatide is given weekly rather than twice daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy, rates of restenosis are about 2.5 times higher with stenting, according to French investigators reporting in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Warming local anesthetics to body temperature significantly reduces pain from the injection, according to the results of a meta-analysis conducted by Canadian investigators…
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,…
