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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.

Hemoglobin Avalues below 7.5% were associated with increased all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in an analysis of nearly 48,000 patients in a U.K. general practice database.

Most adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes intentionally skip insulin injections, and 20% skip them regularly, according to an online survey of 502 diabetic adults.

Use of face masks and hand sanitizer significantly reduced the incidence of influenzalike illness in a 6-week randomized intervention trial of 1,297 young adults living in university residence halls, according to a report in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

A sustained-release formulation of the potassium channel blocker dalfampridine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment to improve walking in people with multiple sclerosis.

The time interval between the onset of symptoms and antiviral treatment was the strongest predictor of intensive care admission for severe infection with 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) and increased the risk for ICU admission up to eightfold in a cumulative case-control study of 795 patients in Manitoba, Canada.