NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a large observational study reinforce current European and American guidelines that clopidogrel be given as early as possible after ST-segment elevation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, pretreatment with a glucocorticoid decreases complications and time spent in the hospital, probably by attenuating the postsurgical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Roflumilast is safe and reduces exacerbations in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are also using a long-acting beta-2 agonist…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to previous studies in term infants, preterm newborns requiring resuscitation do best when given 100% oxygen followed by frequent titration, rather than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Residents and workers exposed to dust after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) manifest signs of regional distal airways dysfunction,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving elderly patients with acute MI a clopidogrel loading dose of 300 mg or more rather than a lower conventional dose doesn’t increase…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new population-based study finds the incidence of pulmonary complications associated with amiodarone to be relatively low, but still 50% higher among patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-1-uninfected newborns of HIV-infected mothers, treatment with the protease inhibitor lopinavir-ritonavir may lead to adrenal dysfunction, including life-threatening adrenal insufficiency in premature…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with an implantable converter-defibrillator (ICD) that uses fracture-prone Fidelis leads have similar survival rates as ICD patients with another type of lead,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with previously untreated multiple myeloma do better when they are given an autologous stem-cell transplant followed by an allogeneic transplant from a…