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) – Confirming recommendations, titrating beta-blocker dosage in ambulatory patients with heart failure up to an equivalent of 50 mg/d carvedilol reduces all-cause deaths and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nutritional support, mainly in the form of oral nutritional supplements, boosts protein and energy intake, body weight and grip strength in malnourished patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, twice daily inhalation of either 200 or 400 mcg aclidinium bromide significantly improves FEV1, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Instillation of donor fecal material in the colon of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection leads to rapid resolution of the condition in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a randomized study provide no evidence of benefit from high-concentration oxygen therapy relative to titrated oxygen therapy in patients with initially…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefit of renin-angiotensin system inhibition in systolic heart failure (HF) extends to older patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a new study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with acute renal colic is relieved more effectively when intravenous papaverine is added to treatment with diclofenac suppository, an Iranian team…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the National Inpatient Sample indicate that vena cava filters reduce the in-hospital fatality rate among patients with pulmonary embolism who are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 to hospitalized children is unlikely to protect them from nosocomial diarrhea, including rotavirus infection, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients receiving rehabilitation for prolonged disorders of consciousness after severe traumatic brain injury show an accelerated pace of cognitive recovery when treated with…
