NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using local anesthesia and fluoroscopic guidance is a simplified and effective means of transfemoral aortic valve replacement (TAVR), using the SAPIEN or newer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance (“watchful waiting”) of small renal masses offers short term results equivalent to those with immediate surgery, researchers from UK report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Once-daily mesalamine, at a dose of 2.4 g, offers maintenance of remission of ulcerative colitis similar to that provided by twice-daily mesalamine at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although liver transplantation for acute liver failure (ALF) still has a high early mortality, outcomes in Europe have improved over 2 decades, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A long-term dietary intervention with grape resveratrol supplements improves the inflammatory and fibrinolytic status of patients at high risk of cardiovascular (CVD) disease,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Individuals infected with HIV face an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), according to findings published in the May 22nd Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) prompts weight loss in most severely obese children and adolescents, Saudi Arabian researchers report in an April 16th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – On May 8, a panel of advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted against rilonacept (Arcalyst, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) for use…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) receiving the endothelin A selective antagonist ambrisentan (Letairis, Gilead) no longer need monthly liver function tests. However,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tubes do more harm than good in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment, a propensity-matched cohort study…