Antibiotics Before Cesarean Delivery Cut Infections in Half

Giving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour before cesarean incision instead of after umbilical cord clamping reduced surgical site infections by 48%, according to a 96-month retrospective cohort study. The study, by Nupur D. Kittur, PhD, MPH, from the Department of Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine and […]

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Systemic corticosteroid monotherapy appears to have no benefit in patients with acute rhinosinusitis, according to new research. Roderick P. Venekamp, MD, PhD, from the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands, and colleagues published their findings online August 7 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Vai all’articolo completo…

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Treatment with human growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH) for 20 weeks had favorable effects on cognitive function in a randomized controlled trial of healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Compared with placebo, daily subcutaneous injections of tesamorelin (Egrifta, Theratechnologies, Inc) were associated with improvement on tests of executive function and possibly memory, […]

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