May/June 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...for high-risk men. The Task Force finds that harms outweigh the benefit of screening low-risk men and women but finds strong evidence to support neonatal ocular prophylactic medication. The Task Force recommends screening high-risk pregnant women and finds insufficient evidence to recommend for or against scr...Tobacco use persists after liver transplant for alcoholic liver disease
...use and poor health outcomes, tobacco use may well outweigh alcohol use for impact on post-liver transplant morbidity and mortality," they conclude. "Tobacco use has become the next compelling issue for liver transplant candidates and one of the most important indications for treatment after liver transplant....Study finds drug works against scleroderma lung disease
...ng else has proven effective. We feel the benefits outweigh the risks." Next, Dr. Tashkin and his co-investigators hope to study a combination of cyclophosphamide and another drug that will fight the effects of scleroderma's lung scarring. "We found favorable effects with cyclophosphamide, but we want to do b...Statin therapy cost-effective for a wider range of individuals
...hospitalisations during the treatment period would outweigh the cost of 40 mg simvastatin daily for people with a 5-year major vascular event risk down to at least 12%--or, approximately equivalently, major coronary event risk of at least 4%. It now seems appropriate to consider reducing the estimated level o...Routine procedure during childbirth provides no benefits, study review finds
...that any possible benefits of the procedure do not outweigh the fact that many women would have had less injury without the surgical incision. The studies reviewed were consistent in demonstrating that routine episiotomy provided no benefit over restrictive episiotomy in terms of the severity of lacerati...Risk of womb cancer varies according to the type of HRT used
...nes during the early stages of menopause appear to outweigh the risks, we need other approaches for symptom relief and disease prevention as the menopause progresses."...The World Congress on Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in Italy
...ns for which the points of contact and overlap far outweigh the differences originating from the specific nature of the clinical picture. The Conference has been organised with the collaboration of the Italian Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Voluntary Association (Associazione Italiana di Volontariato Sindrome di ...Sex hormones hold key to higher rates of abdominal aortic aneurysms in males
...ture of the abdominal aortic aneurysm is judged to outweigh the risk of surgery....