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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of angiotensin blocking therapy before cardiac surgery is not associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers report in the August American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high-risk patients having percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), bivalirudin was more effective than unfractionated heparin plus a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Major surgery often leads to transient thyroid hormone derangements. When it does, short-duration T3 therapy has no apparent benefit, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative dexamethasone does not boost the risk of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, according to a large retrospective study reported in the August Archives of Otolaryngology…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with mild to moderate asthma have better pulmonary function and require less rescue medication if they take budesonide/formoterol (BUD/FM; Symbicort) twice a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gynecologic side effects of the third-generation selective estrogen receptor modulator lasofoxifene are generally acceptable, researchers report, and “contribute to an overall favorable benefit-risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with heart failure have an increasing mortality risk as their dose of furosemide increases, after taking into account multiple confounders, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among couples wanting to conceive, the routine practice of having men with inflammatory bowel disease discontinue thiopurine medications is not necessary, a Spanish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary heart disease that continues to progress to serious events in patients whose LDL levels have been brought down adequately — called “residual…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing the cause of upper abdominal pain, upper endoscopy plus endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is at least as good as upper endoscopy and…