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) – If anybody needed more hours in their day it would probably be a patient on chronic hemodialsys – spending their productive hours confined…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a large meta-analysis of trial data suggest that blood pressure-lowering drugs can help prevent cardiovascular disease in any at-risk individual,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to develop acute lung injury (ALI), according to study findings presented Tuesday at the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exercise echocardiography can predict mortality and major cardiac events in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, but who have normal exercise…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Carotid artery stenting (CAS) followed immediately by on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a feasible treatment for high-risk patients who have both…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cancer patients accidentally overexposed with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy, the investigational drug vistonuridine (Wellstat Therapeutics Corp) may be lifesaving, according to research to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The prophylactic use of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) can help prevent pneumonia and other pulmonary complications after cardiac surgery, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The first procedure performed to treat empyema patients has a key impact on outcomes, new research shows. In particular, patients fare better when…
260 people die each day from dirty hands and dirty instruments! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the health care industry’s own monitoring agencies,…
260 people die each day from dirty hands and dirty instruments! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the health care industry’s own monitoring agencies,…
