This webinar introduces key updates in acute ischemic stroke management, focusing on how modern decision‑making integrates time‑sensitive evaluation, advanced imaging, and AI‑supported tools. It also reviews the expanded…
Daniel R. Schimmel, MD, explains how balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) uses balloons and specialized catheters to open narrowed vessels in the lungs to improve circulation and reduce symptoms…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim) is as effective as warfarin in preventing stroke and systemic embolism after cardioversion in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When infertile men with palpable varicoceles have them repaired, their semen parameters improve and their partners are more likely to become pregnant spontaneously,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a tocolytic agent to aid external cephalic version, the calcium antagonist nifedipine doesn’t seem to work very well, according to a systematic…
Doctors often prescribe unfractionated heparin to obese patients with venous thromboembolism below the recommended doses based on body weight, according to a new study. As a result, some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Placement of an indwelling catheter in the bladder before cesarean section is a long-standing practice that is “not justified by research evidence,” clinicians…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with pneumonia and blood oxygen saturation less than 90% are usually hospitalized. Yet, results of new study suggest that the threshold for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The authors of a systematic review and meta-analysis of relevant studies encourage clinicians to exercise good judgment in using the injectable antibiotic tigecycline…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic stable heart failure (HF) due to nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, a year’s treatment with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older patients with major depression and executive dysfunction, modified problem-solving therapy is more effective than supportive therapy in reducing disability, new research…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Anticoagulation with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) dalteparin following heart valve surgery leads to fewer adverse events than does unfractionated heparin, Canadian researchers report in…
