NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tight glycemic control may increase the risks of mortality and cardiovascular disease, new research suggests. Moderate control, with glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Starting heparin in the emergency department (ED) rather than after admission may improve the survival of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), according…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses low back pain and weight loss, and talks about how 10 pounds of weight in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Operative mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is higher in women, even after adjustment for preoperative risk factors, according to a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving beta-blockers within 8 hours of presentation with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) does not reduce in-hospital mortality, a meta-analysis has shown. Beta-blockers reduce…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with coronary shock and multivessel coronary disease, 30-day and 1-year mortality rates appear to be similar after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to their 2005 recommendation, the US Preventive Services Task Force now recommends that clinicians screen children and adolescents ages 6…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses dietary supplements, the guidelines for which are changing, and now include recommendations for a daily…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – All cesarean sections put women at increased risk of adverse events, including death, according to the World Health Organization’s Global Survey on Maternal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…