NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using a transradial rather than a transfemoral approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can reduce vascular access complications and shorten the hospital stay,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a new study reaffirm the importance of treating heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) with statins, linking therapy with reductions in all-cause,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vitamin D deficiency is associated with myocardial dysfunction, sudden cardiac death (SCD), and death due to heart failure, German researchers report. Vitamin D,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As prophylaxis against ventilator-associated pneumonia, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum 299 (Lp299) is as effective as the antiseptic chlorhexidine in reducing the pathogenic…
Dr. Francis Cordova, Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at Temple University School of Medicine, gives some recommendations for referring patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with cystic fibrosis frequently treated for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, aztreonam lysine for inhalation may be an effective add-on therapy, researchers…
Dr. Gerard J. Criner, Director of the Temple University Lung Center, talks about the use of lung volume reduction surgery in treating patients with severe emphysema. References and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who use statins prior to hospitalization for pneumonia are less likely to die after discharge than their peers who were not using…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia are nearly eight times more likely to experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) within 15 days of admission…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Measuring procalcitonin levels, which are relatively high with bacterial versus viral infections, can help reduce antibiotic use in treating respiratory tract infections, according…