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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving abciximab to high-risk patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) before transferring them for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces 1-year mortality without increasing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using hypertonic saline with nebulized epinephrine instead of normal saline does not improve the clinical outcomes of infants in the ER with mild…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Interest in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) grew in the mid-1990s based on the belief that it could reduce the complications seen…