NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delays in treatment may favor onsite fibrinolytic therapy over transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in some patients who present with ST-segment-elevation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) can be safely undertaken in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), researchers from Turkey report in the November 17th online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, warfarin anticoagulation is beneficial in septuagenarians with atrial fibrillation, researchers report in a November 28th on-line paper in the American Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exposure to thienopyridines before cardiac surgery is associated with increased risk of postop stroke, rebleeding and mortality, without any reduction in MI risk,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptoms considered typical of chronic rhinosinusitis are often nonspecific and do not warrant antibiotic treatment, according to findings reported in Clinical Infectious Disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For adult patients seen in the emergency department with acute bone fracture, a sublingual dose of buprenorphine is as effective as intravenous morphine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to expectations, left ventricular (LV) pacing is not superior to simultaneous biventricular (BiV) pacing in certain patients with symptoms of heart failure,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes of bloodstream infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with elevated vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MICs) are better when treated with daptomycin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with early stage non-small-cell lung cancer, treatment with gemcitabine and cisplatin before radical surgery is associated with better survival than is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) esomeprazole is superior to the H2-receptor…