Nilesh Samani REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 443-53 NILESH SAMANI, University of Leicester UK Previously unrecognised DNA segments in human genes have...
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Vaginal Progesterone Reduced Risk of Preterm Birth in Women with Short Cervix+
Kypros Nicolaides REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 426-9 KYPROS NICOLAIDES, Kings College Hospital, London The risk of giving birth prematurely was reduced...
Earlier Interferon Reduces Disability in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis+
Ludwig Kappos REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 370: 389-97 LUDWIG KAPPOS, University Hospital, Basel Earlier treatment can reduce the risk of confirmed disability in patients with...
Tuberculosis: Non-Adherence to Treatment is a Major Obstacle to Therapy Success+
Simon Lewin REFERENCE: PLoS Med 4(7):e238. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040238 SIMON LEWIN, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Non-adherence is a big factor reducing the efficacy...
Etravirine for HIV-1-infected Patients Failing Antiretroviral Therapy+
&t Margaret Johnson ;em>REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 370:39-48 MARGARET JOHNSON, Royal Free Hospital, London A new non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor has demonstrated its activity in patients...
Visual Cervix Cancer Screening Test: Cheap and Effective in the Developing World+
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan REFERENCE: Lancet 2007;370:398-406 RENGASWAMY SANKARANARAYANAN, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon An inexpensive visual cervix cancer-screening test has proved its worth...
Ovarian Stimulation Does Not Affect Fetal Birth Weight – reporting from 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, 1-4 July 2007, Lyon, France+
&ot Georg Griesinger REFERENCE: O-103 GEORG GRIESINGER, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck, Germany Although low fetal birth weight is associated with singleton babies born...
Shorter Anti-Viral Treatment for Hepatitis C: Less Effective Than Standard Regimen+
Mitchell Shiffman REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007;357:124-34 MITCHELL SHIFFMAN, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Standard anti-viral therapy for Hepatitis C needs to be used...