NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Does vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke? Apparently not, according to a study of more…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During resuscitation of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, keep the pause in compressions to less than 3 seconds before each shock and to less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Plasma levels of the cardiac hormone N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) don’t tell doctors anything about their normal healthy patients, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recombinant human neuregulin-1 (rhNRG-1) improves cardiac function and remodeling in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), say researchers from the People’s Republic of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Amlodipine decreases central systolic blood pressure more effectively when combined with valsartan than with atenolol, French researchers reported online April 19th in Hypertension.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding inhaled treprostinil (Tyvaso) to oral bosentan for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) improves exercise capacity and quality of life, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with diabetic nephropathy, high doses of B vitamins accelerate kidney dysfunction and increase the rate of myocardial infarction (MI) and strokes,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reperfusing the myocardium within 5 hours of an infarction makes a real survival difference, research from Denmark shows. The study, conducted in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study published today provides more evidence that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) interfere with clopidogrel. Recommendations from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The angiotensin II receptor blocker olmesartan medoxomil (Benicar) significantly reduces blood pressure in children with primary or secondary hypertension, according to an international…