NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Spironolactone use is associated with improved long-term survival in patients with systolic heart failure, researchers from Japan report in the December American Heart…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to bare metal stent implantation, patients with acute myocardial infarction and failed thrombolysis who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), do no better…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The current U.S. system for allocating donated livers – which is based on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score – is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug-eluting stents (DES) seem to be safer and more effective than bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts (SVG), according to a systematic review…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Current data do not support the widespread use of MRI for the diagnosis and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), researchers conclude in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Band ligation of bleeding esophageal varices can be impossible when blood obscures the endoscopic view – but giving erythromycin before the procedure will…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a pilot study of patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), adding clopidogrel to aspirin did not reduce overall graft occlusion,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adults who are admitted to the hospital solely because of an acute bout of dizziness are three times more likely to suffer a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acute hyperglycemia, even without diabetes, raises the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy and death in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The most effective way to prevent a first stroke is not well established – what works for the primary prevention of myocardial infarction…