NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Heart failure patients who see a physician within a week after hospital discharge are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days, according to…
Rafael Barrera, MD, Director, Surgical ICU at LIJ Medical Center, discusses patient nutrition and the three methods available to do so: oral (supplements), parenteral nutrition (PN) and enteral…
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) – Does vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke? Apparently not, according to a study of more…
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) – Recombinant human neuregulin-1 (rhNRG-1) improves cardiac function and remodeling in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), say researchers from the People’s Republic of…
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) – In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and anemia, targeting higher hemoglobin levels with an erythropoietic agent is not helpful and is very…
