By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Despite warnings that supplemental testosterone may raise the risk of stroke and heart attack, doctors continue to prescribe the hormone off-label to men with cardiovascular disease, a...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – One third of U.S. adults say they sleep less than six hours a night, which is 15 percent more than were getting too little sleep 15 years ago, researchers say. The trend toward...
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Progress in fighting Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak,...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Providing scheduled dialysis for undocumented immigrants with kidney failure, rather than offering them only emergency dialysis, dramatically reduces deaths, healthcare use and costs, a...
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More than one-quarter of those surveyed not comfortable with stopping low-value screening
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Longer sleep time tied to better grades, some improvements in attendance
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Researchers call for more randomized controlled trials to investigate systemic treatments
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Significant link identified, with nonlinear J-shaped dose-response relationship for increasing parity
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Increased risk for screen-detected and interval breast cancer persists for 12 years after false-positive result
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Risk greatest for women born with birth weight <2,500 g who develop overweight/obesity
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For older adults, effect of anxiety, depression on physical health similar to that of obesity, smoking
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Other studies detail concerns about pediatric telemedicine use, grassroots intervention to up PECC use
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Higher dose area product seen for patients with obesity undergoing projection radiography
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Odds of CKD up with beverage pattern consisting of higher intake of sweetened soda, fruit drinks, water
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Cumulative proportional probability for AF events greatest for those in the highest quartile of salt intake
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Recs call for ultrasounds, advise against therapeutic pleural interventions in asymptomatic patients
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Cardiovascular risk increased with sulfonylureas and basal insulin versus newer classes of ADM
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Meta-analysis: large uncertainty versus placebo for all medications for pain relief
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Second bulletin provides recommendations for management of chronic hypertension in pregnancy
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Studies have demonstrated that, among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), being overweight or...
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