We do not know if other non-medicinal treatments and innovative healthcare support helped to reduce the number of seizures or improve children's quality of life because the evidence was limited and ...

The effect of oral riboflavin (vitamin B 2) supplements on blood pressure is uncertain. Large, well-conducted trials are needed to assess the effect of riboflavin on blood pressure lowering.

Women who have immediate skin-to-skin contact with their newborns are probably more likely to exclusively breastfeed at hospital discharge and up to one month after birth (12 studies, 1556 ...

We do not know if medicinal and non-medicinal treatments help reduce impulsive-compulsive behaviors in people with Parkinson's disease because the currently available evidence is limited and uncertain ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare disease where the immune system attacks the communication between nerves and muscles, causing weakness. It often affects the muscles used for eye movement, facial ...

• Blood pressure-lowering medications lower the chance of death and probably reduce heart attacks and strokes in people with hypertension (high blood pressure) 60 years of age or older. • There may be ...

Simple hysterectomy may result in little to no difference in the number of deaths from any cause, life expectancy after treatment, deaths from cancer, cancer-free period after treatment, or the rate ...

Doctors need reliable ways to predict seizure risk after a first unprovoked seizure, to help guide diagnosis and treatment. This is especially important because a diagnosis of epilepsy can now be made ...

Due to a lack of robust evidence, the benefits and risks of adding chemotherapy directly into the abdominal cavity (intraperitoneal chemotherapy, or IPC) for stomach cancer are unclear.

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