Even before COVID-19 ravaged the medical workforce, physicians, nurses, and other health workers were at increased risk for burnout and depression. Although these professionals are equipped to manage…
Occupational therapists and occupational therapy (OT) assistants at NYU Langone Health are finding themselves working on the front line of this pandemic to help patients recover from COVID-19.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study provides more evidence that influenza vaccine reduces major cardiovascular events in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating high-risk retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) early, before threshold severity is reached, preserves peripheral vision with relatively little reduction in visual field extent.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians recommends strongly against the use of intensive insulin therapy to normalize high…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A D-dimer level below 500 ng/mL reliably rules out acute aortic dissection, although the positive predictive value of a higher concentration is quite…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, single-center study of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, permissive enteral underfeeding was associated with lower morbidity and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In looking back at patients admitted to a medical ICU in Olmsted County, Minnesota in 2006, clinicians found that those who were on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients who require stroke prevention therapy and who also undergo coronary stenting, combining oral anticoagulation with aspirin and clopidogrel provides better antithrombotic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to the standard 75-mg/d maintenance dose of clopidogrel, 150 mg/d produces greater platelet inhibition, higher flow-mediated vasodilation, and reduced inflammation – all…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with digital subtraction angiography, computed tomographic angiography is only about half as sensitive in identifying cerebrovascular injuries resulting from blunt trauma, reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, discontinuing chronic aspirin therapy at least 6 days before or within 5 days of surgery has…
