Samuel I. Fink, MD, FACP, internal medicine specialist in private practice in Tarzana, California, and his daughter, Sarrica Fink, RN, previously in practice at Cedar Sinai Medical Center…
Jenny C. Yip, PsyD, ABPP, shares advice for HCPs who may be struggling with anxiety or depression as a result of months of practicing medicine and managing personal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes of bloodstream infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with elevated vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MICs) are better when treated with daptomycin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) esomeprazole is superior to the H2-receptor…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with Kawasaki disease, initial treatment with a combination of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and ulinastatin reduces the occurrence of coronary artery lesions…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy before and during acute ischemic stroke hospitalization is associated with improved poststroke survival, and going off statin therapy in the hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While carbapenems are the drugs of choice for treating infections due to Enterobacteriaceae that produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, treatment with combination beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor antibiotics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of high-dose human regular U-500 and human regular U-100 insulin are similar, the U-500 formulation may…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery provides no added benefit over best medical therapy for preventing recurrent stroke in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic internal carotid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized nonsurgical patients (medical patients and those with acute stroke) should receive pharmacologic venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis, unless the risk for bleeding outweighs…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The rate of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism is twice as high among surgical patients in the US with inflammatory bowel disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing is sensitive and rapid in diagnosing the cause of acute respiratory infection in children, it does…
