In an interview for NBC News, Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, affiliate assistant professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at…
Dileep R. Yavagal, MD, Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Chief Interventional Neurologist at the University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine, describes a treatment that has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors shouldn’t rely on sputum color when deciding whether to prescribe antibiotics to cough patients, according to a new study in the European…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of a point-of-care troponin T assay by paramedics before patients with suspected acute MI reach the hospital is feasible and has a…
NEW YORK (Reuter Health) – With the availability of more sensitive troponin I assays, lowering the diagnostic threshold for detection of myocardial necrosis from 0.20 to 0.05 ng/mL…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Elderly women who were treated for urinary tract infections with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole were 3 times more likely to be hospitalized for hyperkalemia in the…
Mark R. Chassin, MD, President of the Joint Commission, discusses flu vaccination in the workplace. When healthcare workers are vaccinated at high rates, transmission in hospitals is reduced,…
Leigh Robb, MD, Chief Medical Officer, MedAire, describes the function of this company that provides medical services to air passengers, including medical advice on board, medical repatriation and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The vasodilatory effect of inhaled nitric oxide does nothing to ease the severity of vaso-occlusive crises in patients with sickle cell disease. That…
Lena Edwards, MD, internist, Balance Health & Wellness Center, discusses salivary cortisol testing which is increasingly being used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with hypothalamic pituitary…
Lena Edwards, MD, internist, Balance Health & Wellness Center, discusses stressand cardiovascular disease. Cortisol has effects in causing disease over the long-term. It lowers growth hormone levels, increases…
