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) – For pregnant women who require chronic anticoagulation, low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) is an alternative to warfarin, but not an ideal one, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with bradycardia and a normal ejection fraction, biventricular pacing can prevent the adverse ventricular remodeling and drop in ejection fraction seen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized children with impending cardiac arrest have better survival when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is started during bradycardia rather than after the onset of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The initial empiric antimicrobial therapy used to treat septic shock may be the most important determinant of whether a patient will survive to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) provides rapid relief of acute neck pain as well as sustained improvements in chronic neck pain, a meta-analysis has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Because cholinesterase inhibitors induce can bradycardia, particularly at higher doses, physicians are being urged to closely monitor patients treated with these medications, especially…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term ambrisentan therapy safely improves exercise capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), according to results of an extension protocol that followed…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In kidney transplant recipients, bringing hemoglobin levels above 125 g/L with erythropoietin may increase mortality, according to a report in the November 6th…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation in patients who never had a myocardial infarction (MI) is a highly specific marker of coronary artery disease and a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Blood transfusion is safe and may be beneficial in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, say researchers from Israel in the October American…
