When used with pegylated interferon alfa-2a and ribavirin, the hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor telaprevir could shorten treatment duration, according to findings from the PROVE 2 trial. Medscape Medical News
Vitamin D supplementation is not "one size fits all," say researchers who found that obese and nonwhite women might need higher doses. Medscape Medical News
Only about half of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will increase in size, and those that grow less than 1.5 mm per year are seldom of clinical relevance, new research suggests. Reuters Health Information
In sudden infant death syndrome, infants found with their heads covered were often very sweaty, which suggests that head covering may have been related to the death but was not an agonizing event. Medscape Medical News
Dr. Laura Barclay reviews a recent study evaluating the spectrum of neurological complications in children who were hospitalized in 2009 with H1N1. Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery
