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) – Adding ketamine to propofol may improve the quality of sedation for painful procedures in the emergency department but it doesn’t reduce the frequency…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For treatment of uncomplicated skin abscesses, the efficacy of ultrasound-guided needle aspiration is not on par with incision and drainage – it doesn’t…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Noninvasive measurements of hemoglobin levels using the Masimo hemoglobin meter are “systematically” underestimated and are not reliable enough to guide decisions about the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Warfarin dosing based on genotype-stratified tables is more accurate than empiric dosing, but not as good as estimates derived from formal pharmacogenetic algorithms,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A high loading dose of clopidogrel — 600 mg — appears to be unnecessary in Asian patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stroke events are significantly less likely after carotid endarterectomy than after carotid artery stenting, particularly in the long term and among older patients,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In comparison with results in adults with diabetes, hemoglobin A1c (HbA1C) testing in younger patients doesn’t have the same level of discrimination, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Basal bolus glargine insulin once daily plus glulisine before meals effectively manages general surgery patients with type 2 diabetes, investigators report. Compared to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), an impaired platelet response clopidogrel independently contributes to worse outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sumatriptan given subcutaneously relieves cyclic vomiting syndrome associated with migraine, researchers from Japan report in the December 8th online Cephalalgia. “Try sumatriptan for…
