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) – A large study of revascularization strategies in diabetics with multivessel coronary artery disease, which set out to show that angioplasty is not inferior…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing to take low-dose aspirin after endoscopic treatment of a bleeding peptic ulcer raises the risk for re-bleeding but may also reduce mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving intravenous drugs during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does not improve survival, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Interruption of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compressions is common and prolonged when paramedics attempt to perform endotracheal intubation at the same time, research indicates.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is more than twice as likely to show an unexpected nodule or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A 12-year study in middle-aged adults suggests that knee pain is frequently the first sign of knee osteoarthritis. “Knee pain is common, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women younger than 65 years old and men younger than 55 with acute chest pain benefit most from cardiac CT angiography (CTA) for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In trauma patients with possible neck injury, paramedics can apply the Canadian C-Spine Rule to reliably avoid unnecessary spinal immobilization “without missing any…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chronic renal disease appears to reduce platelet responsiveness to clopidogrel, according to a Korean research team. Furthermore, increasing the dose of clopidogrel does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Provocative clinical tests — palpation for nerve thickening and local tenderness, Tinel’s test and flexion compression tests – are of little value in…
