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) – In children with bacterial meningitis, age and presenting neurologic status are the most important predictors of hearing loss, and neither dexamethasone nor glycerol…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Prove-it sepsis assay (Mobidiag, Helsinki, Finland) is highly sensitive and specific in identifying bacterial species in blood samples and provides much faster…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-flow inhaled oxygen is an effective treatment for cluster headache attacks, investigators said in the Journal of the American Medical Association for December…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Methadone is a safe, effective first- or second-line treatment of cancer pain, even in outpatients, a retrospective study suggests. Concerns over its long…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) provides no benefit after acute ischemic stroke, and may even be dangerous, particularly in patients receiving systemic thrombolysis. These…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after surgery is probably higher and longer-lasting than previously thought, data from the UK’s Million Women Study…
Matt Garber MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Hospitalists at the University of Southern California, discusses the VIP or Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network, a…
Matthew Garber, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Hospitalists at the University of South Carolina, discusses one of his top ten pediatric hospitalist journal articles…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients given phenytoin after an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) have more fevers while hospitalized and worse functional outcomes at 3 months, according to investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive statin therapy is more effective than standard doses in reducing the risk of major adverse events after angioplasty for acute coronary syndromes…
