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) – Sodium phosphate enemas, even in standard doses, may lead to severe metabolic disorders and death in elderly patients, warn clinicians from Israel in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most domains of health-related quality of life in iron-deficient patients with chronic heart failure improve significantly after 4 weeks of treatment with intravenous…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute lung injury on mechanical ventilation, restricting the amount of enteral nutrition provided does not reduce the number of days…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, aggressive use of azathioprine is associated with reduced surgery rates in patients with Crohn’s disease, researchers from Hungary report in the January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – N-acetylcysteine is increasingly used to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) but it is not effective, according to a paper in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), linezolid is more effective and better tolerated than the gold standard vancomycin, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on beta-blockers who undergo surgery are nearly twice as likely to experience adverse events in the following months if beta-blockers are discontinued,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy started 10 days or more after onset of Kawasaki disease (KD) suppresses inflammation but does not prevent coronary artery lesions,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data released online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association challenge current guidelines for maintaining potassium levels immediately after a heart…
