NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In diabetics with heart failure, use of metformin is associated with a lower risk of mortality than use of other anti-diabetic agents, even…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rosuvastatin is safe and effective in children with familial hypercholesterolemia, although many will not achieve consensus targets for low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis can undergo low- or intermediate- risk noncardiac surgery relatively safely, new research shows. Severe aortic stenosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Appropriate use of intravenous narcotics is safe and perhaps even beneficial in patients with acute coronary syndromes, according to Israeli researchers. In general,…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses hybrid approaches to cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, such as operation rooms where interventional…