NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinical prediction rules for judging the likelihood of a pulmonary embolism (PE) could be improved, new research shows. Now the rules leave out…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, delaying clopidogrel loading until just before or after PCI does not…
EW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-risk patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with angioplasty can be discharged within 72 hours, Canadian investigators suggest. Although STEMI patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new feeding tube that’s inserted while attached to an ultra-thin gastroscope will avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of blind tube placement, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) abacavir and didanosine, and the protease inhibitors (PIs) indinavir and lopinavir-ritonavir, all increase the risk of myocardial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of acute kidney injury after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is higher than 10%, a Canadian study shows. As reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – All cesarean sections put women at increased risk of adverse events, including death, according to the World Health Organization’s Global Survey on Maternal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome and elevated troponin T get no long term benefits from early invasive treatment as opposed to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ventilator-associated pneumonia is less likely to be fatal when patients are intubated with a silver-coated endotracheal tube, according to a post hoc analysis…