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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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction should receive human atrial natriuretic peptide (hANP) infusions during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, Japanese researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The nonselective beta-blocker carvedilol and the beta-1-selective beta-blockers metoprolol succinate and bisoprolol have significantly different treatment effects in patients with chronic heart failure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older patients with normal lipids but high C-reactive protein, primary prevention therapy with rosuvastatin (Crestor) does not lower mortality, but it does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on long-term stable warfarin therapy can safely be immunized against influenza, results of study from Italy indicate. In the study, influenza vaccination…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Octogenarians with heart failure have a higher risk of in-hospital death after defibrillator or pacemaker placement, compared to younger patients, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to dual antiplatelet therapy after stent implantation boosts patients’ platelet response, investigators in Poland report. The P2Y12…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Upgrading traditional 2 chamber cardiac pacemakers to modern 3 chamber pacemakers — cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices — improves left ventricular ejection fraction…