In patients whose mild cognitive impairment affects executive function but not memory, the presence of hypertension signals an increased likelihood of progression to full dementia, according to a report in the February issue of the Archives of Neurology.
The federal government has granted states and territories $119 million to reduce tobacco use, increase physical activity, and fight obesity, the Health and Human Services department announced on Feb. 5.
A closed-loop system linking continuous glucose measurements to insulin delivery reduced the risk of nocturnal hypoglycemia, compared with standard continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in a three-part randomized crossover study involving 17 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Feb. 2 that 50 lots of vaccine for pandemic influenza A(H1N1) are losing potency faster than expected.
Large group health plans must treat mental health and substance abuse services the same way they treat medical and surgical services under new government regulations that will take effect July 1, 2010.
Event-free survival at 3 years was significantly greater among women with HER2-positive locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer who received trastuzumab as neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy in the international, open-label, phase III NOAH trial, investigators reported.
Internal tocodynamometry during induced or augmented labor failed to reduce the rate of operative deliveries compared with external monitoring of uterine contractions, according to a report in the Jan. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
