NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 2010 Update of the practice parameter on the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis emphasizes education and self-administration of epinephrine for patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As long as eligibility criteria are strictly followed, it is safe to let “real world” patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention go home on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of angiotensin blocking therapy before cardiac surgery is not associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers report in the August American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with mild to moderate asthma have better pulmonary function and require less rescue medication if they take budesonide/formoterol (BUD/FM; Symbicort) twice a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gynecologic side effects of the third-generation selective estrogen receptor modulator lasofoxifene are generally acceptable, researchers report, and “contribute to an overall favorable benefit-risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with heart failure have an increasing mortality risk as their dose of furosemide increases, after taking into account multiple confounders, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among couples wanting to conceive, the routine practice of having men with inflammatory bowel disease discontinue thiopurine medications is not necessary, a Spanish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary heart disease that continues to progress to serious events in patients whose LDL levels have been brought down adequately — called “residual…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing the cause of upper abdominal pain, upper endoscopy plus endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is at least as good as upper endoscopy and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recommendations issued by the European Society of Cardiology emphasize the need to consider the clinical context in interpreting cardiac troponin readings in acute…