ORLANDO (Reuters Health) – In a head-to-head comparison, extended-release niacin outperformed ezetimibe in shrinking carotid intima-media thickness in patients who were already taking statins, raising yet another red…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with normal stress myocardial perfusion imaging on single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) don’t need additional rest imaging, say researchers from The Methodist…
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) – Anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents do not increase the risk of cancer during the first few years of use for rheumatoid arthritis, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of masked hypertension, often in association with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), research findings indicate.…
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) – In an update to its 2002 guidelines, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is now recommending that mammographic screening for breast cancer…
David Tayloe, Jr, MD, FAAP, Community Pediatrician in Goldsboro, NC, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, speaking here at the 2009 Pediatric Hospitalist Conference in Tampa, Fla,…