F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, shares insights from a review of recent study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine examining duty-hours rules at 63 residency…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who develop acute renal failure (ARF) after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting have a poorer prognosis if the condition doesn’t resolve within…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The patency of saphenous veins used for coronary artery bypass grafting is better in the 3 months after the operation when patients are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stent fractures are not always associated with clinical sequelae, but they do increase the likelihood of in-stent restenosis (ISR) and target lesion revascularization…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) used to prevent sudden cardiac death in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction significantly improve survival in younger patients, but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding midazolam to ketamine for emergency department sedation in adults reduces the occurrence of agitation during recovery, investigators report in the Annals of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rosuvastatin halves the rate of primary cardiovascular events in patients who have a high global cardiovascular risk profile, according to a post hoc…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients hospitalized for infection, continuing pre-existing statin therapy does not improve outcomes, and discontinuing the therapy does not lead to an inflammatory…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The common practice of routinely testing patients with ischemic stroke for inherited thrombophilias can do more harm than good, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1% of outpatient endoscopies require a subsequent visit to the emergency room for related complications, but fewer than a quarter of these…
Kenneth Simons, MD, Chair of the Section of Medical Schools at AMA, talks at the Annual AMA Delegation about the challenges in medical education, the first of which…
