NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The morbidity of extensive axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided without jeopardizing survival for some breast cancer patients with positive sentinel lymph…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients who require stroke prevention therapy and who also undergo coronary stenting, combining oral anticoagulation with aspirin and clopidogrel provides better antithrombotic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to the standard 75-mg/d maintenance dose of clopidogrel, 150 mg/d produces greater platelet inhibition, higher flow-mediated vasodilation, and reduced inflammation – all…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with digital subtraction angiography, computed tomographic angiography is only about half as sensitive in identifying cerebrovascular injuries resulting from blunt trauma, reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For mild persistent asthma, fluticasone propionate with salmeterol cuts the risk of exacerbations more than ciclesonide, but both regimens effectively control daily symptoms.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An analysis of “real-life” data from a French myocardial infarction (MI) registry fails to show any clinically relevant interaction between clopidogrel and proton…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with myeloma treated with thalidomide, antithrombotic prophylactic therapies with aspirin, warfarin or enoxaparin reduce thromboembolic events to a similar degree, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an early phase trial indicate that wearing an experimental dual-focus soft contact lens can reduce myopia progression in children, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Insulin degludec, an ultra-long-acting basal insulin, provides glycemic control in type 1 diabetes similar to that of insulin glargine but with lower occurrence…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Polyps located in the right hemi-colon, particularly in the cecum, seem to be a substantial and independent risk factor for delayed post-polypectomy hemorrhage,…
