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…
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…
