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Occult Staph aureus bacteremia “important” in adult ED patients

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Occult Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a “rare but important” issue in adult emergency department patients, one that deserves closer attention, a team of physicians from the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei note in a paper online March 19 in Clinical...

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Cigarette smoking potentiates effects of clopidogrel in diabetics

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cigarette smoking enhanced the effects of clopidogrel in a study of diabetics with coronary artery disease. Accordingly, smokers were less likely to experience high on-treatment platelet reactivity (HPR), the researchers reported in the March issue of JACC: Cardiovascular...

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Avanafil safe, effective for erectile dysfunction

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An investigational phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor, avanafil, is an effective and well tolerated treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED), according to the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Korea and reported online in BJU International. “Based...