NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stress testing can be safely done in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis and is useful in predicting adverse cardiac events, including sudden…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefit of adding inhaled corticosteroids to long-acting beta-2 agonists for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is limited, and furthermore, it’s accompanied…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the combination of budesonide/formoterol with tiotropium is more effective than tiotropium alone. The triple therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Opioid analgesics should not be used in elderly patients with osteoarthritis even if their pain is severe, because the associated risks are so…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving high-flow oxygen therapy for 15 minutes to emergency department patients with headaches provides rapid relief and reduces hospital stays, use of CT…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may increase the risk of early delivery, low Apgar score at 5 minutes, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sildenafil (Viagra) is associated with a number of side effects, but data on long-term harms are still lacking, a systematic review and meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) early after acute myocardial infarction does not decrease overall mortality, investigators report October 8 in The New England…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In non-diabetic patients with hypertensive kidney disease, the risk of hyperkalemia with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is “small,” according to research reported…
