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…
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…
