NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and elevate natriuretic peptide levels can benefit from treatment with various suppressors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The adverse effects of conventional amphotericin B for treating acute cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS patients can be reduced significantly by using the liposomal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A modified procedure intended to improve on Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been shown in an Australian study to actually have…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer harboring susceptibility mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) did better with gefitinib given as first-line therapy…
Learn more about the violent consequences of terrorism as Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem in Jerusalem…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem discusses the most prominent injury at Hadassah – primary blast lung.…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of the Department of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem, discusses new developments at Hadassah in the field…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with diabetes and hypertension, an antihypertensive regimen combining an ACE inhibitor with a calcium channel blocker provides better protection against cardiovascular…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even though carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) independently predicts cardiovascular disease events, this parameter does not add useful information to traditional risk factor…
