NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A fibrin-derived peptide (FX06) appears to limit infarct size when given during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, according…
By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can virtually eliminate central sleep apnea (CSA), it does not reduce sleep…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even in the absence of ischemic heart disease, exercise capacity is limited in people with abnormal left ventricular diastolic function, investigators report in…
Dr. Schreiber at Harper University Hospital pioneers a new minimally invasive treatment to prevent stroke in patients with carotid artery disease. ~ Detroit Medical Center For more information…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the nonsteroidal selective estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene may heighten the risk of venous thromboembolic events and stroke deaths in postmenopausal women…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among spontaneously breathing, very premature infants, surfactant therapy administered within the first hour of life along with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic heart failure, higher systolic blood pressures paradoxically predict better survival, according to researchers in the UK. Writing in the…
Scott M. Strayer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Services, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, discusses a new update of the smoking…
Daniel Rauch MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Medical Center, Member of NYU Pediatric Inpatient Associates discusses the recent advances in pneumonia treatment in children, which include…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an MRI study suggest that the brain may be affected very early in the course of systemic lupus…