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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic heart failure have a higher mortality risk or are more likely to undergo a heart transplant if they have low…
Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses “meaningful use” and the criteria for definition that are not yet defined. There are several key areas that need to…