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) – Stents coated with sirolimus (Cypher) and those coated with paclitaxel (Taxus) perform equally well for revascularization of saphenous vein grafts, investigators report. A…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients hospitalized for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, treatment with linezolid is as effective as “gold standard” treatment with vancomycin. In fact, length…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A lower INR for low-risk anticoagulated patients with mechanical aortic valve replacement reduces the risk of bleeding without increasing the rate of thromboembolic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After ruling out an upper gastrointestinal (GI) source of bleeding, patients with serious hematochezia should undergo colonoscopy within the next few days. But…
Charles E. Argoff, MD, Professor of Neurology and Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center at the Albany Medical Center, speaks on different treatment options when dealing with pain.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cardiologists should perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as soon as possible if initial treatment for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is thrombolysis, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reducing costs may be an advantage of using procalcitonin levels to predict bacteremia in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, according to a paper in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) can’t be reliably estimated via catheters inserted through the femoral vein, researchers report in the July issue of Chest…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The practice of inserting a filter in the inferior ven cava before performing gastric bypass surgery does not reduce the postoperative occurrence of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urinary tract infections occur quite often after patients are given detrusor injections of botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) to reduce bladder overactivity, so prophylactic…
