NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients starting clozapine must be monitored for endocarditis during the first month, particularly at week 3, new research shows. The researchers also suggest…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – To reduce the risk of adverse ischemic outcomes and death, angioplasty should be done within 24 hours of presentation for non-ST-segment elevation acute…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If asymptomatic lower pole renal calculi require intervention, percutaneous nephrolithotomy will provide a higher stone-free rate than shock wave lithotripsy, and with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transesophageal endoscopic surgery of the mediastinum in pigs carries a substantial risk of inadvertent pneumothorax, German researchers report. The procedure had no cardiopulmonary…
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) – The largest public medical institution in France has dramatically reduced its methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rates, achieving a relative reduction of more…
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,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drinking extra water combined with lemon juice might prevent encrustation of long-term indwelling urinary catheters, sparing patients from urinary retention or incontinence due…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug-eluting stents in saphenous vein grafts have a lower risk of revascularization than bare-metal stents, according to a meta-analysis of data on nearly…