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) – Long-term follow-up of more than 2000 patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease shows stenting to be as effective as coronary artery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins reduce the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation after myocardial infarction or revascularization, new data confirm. “This may be yet another reason why…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During resuscitation of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, keep the pause in compressions to less than 3 seconds before each shock and to less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of azithromycin cured early syphilis as effectively as the standard painful penicillin injections, in a recent phase III trial. But…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Plasma levels of the cardiac hormone N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) don’t tell doctors anything about their normal healthy patients, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women in Ecuador have a particularly high rate of fever and shivering with sublingual misoprostol – but whether this is due to altitude,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary artery stenting does not reduce long-term rates of myocardial infarction (MI) or mortality in patients with stress-positive stable coronary artery disease, German…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reperfusing the myocardium within 5 hours of an infarction makes a real survival difference, research from Denmark shows. The study, conducted in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study published today provides more evidence that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) interfere with clopidogrel. Recommendations from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The TNF alpha inhibitor adalimumab provides minor analgesia in patients with radicular pain due to lumbar disc herniation, but prompts a major reduction…
