NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the National Inpatient Sample indicate that vena cava filters reduce the in-hospital fatality rate among patients with pulmonary embolism who are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During 3 years of follow-up in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), overall outcomes were significantly better in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Malnourished adults aged 60 and older who started an energy- and protein-enriched nutritional plan plus calcium and vitamin D supplements following hospital discharge…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 to hospitalized children is unlikely to protect them from nosocomial diarrhea, including rotavirus infection, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Increases in fasting blood sugar levels are often seen in patients starting niacin, sometimes to a level that suggests new onset of type…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients receiving rehabilitation for prolonged disorders of consciousness after severe traumatic brain injury show an accelerated pace of cognitive recovery when treated with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The selective inhibitor of Janus kinase (JAK) 1 and 2, ruxolitinib, significantly reduces spleen size and other debilitating symptoms in patients with myelofibrosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (nSTE-ACS), long-term outcomes are no different whether they undergo angiography, and revascularization if indicated, within…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotic prophylaxis based on rectal swab cultures in men undergoing transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies (TRUSP) reduces the incidence of post-procedure infectious complications. Furthermore,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding trimetazidine to the treatment of chronic heart failure improves cardiac function and slows left ventricular remodeling, according to the results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cases of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, intravenous infusion of erythromycin about 30 minutes before endoscopy should be considered to improve diagnostic yield and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Anakinra is highly effective in treating patients with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), researchers from the National Institutes of Health report in the…
