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) – Only about half of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will increase in size, and those that grow less than 1.5 mm per year…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-infected patients, risk factors for thrombocytopenia include interruptions in antiretroviral therapy, high HIV RNA levels, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and cirrhosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adenosine is less able to convert paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) to sinus rhythm when it’s given within 4 hours of caffeine ingestion, Australian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prepping a patient’s skin with chlorhexidine-alcohol rather than with povidone-iodine reduces both superficial and deep incisional infections after clean-contaminated surgery, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although patients with liver disease often have an increased international normalized ratio (INR), their coagulopathy does not protect against venous thromboembolism (VTE), new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and a previous myocardial infarction, prophylactic VT ablation in advance of defibrillator placement appears to postpone recurrence…
Co-author Rebecca Rose, CVT talks about her new book, “Career Choices for Veterinary Technicians.” Rose co-wrote the book with Carin Smith, DVM, and it has been published by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Genital ulcers are common in HIV-infected women when antiretroviral therapy (ART) begins, particularly when CD4 counts are low or when women have had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued a “permissive recommendation” for the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV4) in males, to protect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a mass screening tool for diabetes and pre-diabetes in China, the fasting capillary blood glucose (FCG) test performs better than the hemoglobin…
