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) – The 2010 Update of the practice parameter on the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis emphasizes education and self-administration of epinephrine for patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As long as eligibility criteria are strictly followed, it is safe to let “real world” patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention go home on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If recognized right away, most bile duct injuries related to laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be repaired quickly in a tertiary hepatobiliary center — within…
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…