The 2011 Society of Hospital Medicine Conference in Dallas, TX, opened today. Dr. Daniel Dressler welcomed everybody to the conference and was followed by Dr, John Nelson, who…
NEW YORK (Reuters health) – Among premenopausal women treated for hormone-responsive breast cancer with adjuvant anastrozole, body mass index (BMI) has a significant impact on outcomes, an Austrian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with the standard long protocol using gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists during ovarian stimulation, the use of GnRH antagonists results in comparable live-birth…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among MI patients who have undergone successful revascularization, prompt administration of erythropoietin does not reduce ultimate infarct size. In fact, it may have…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mitral isthmus ablation is a technically challenging procedure and acute subclinical circumflex ‘injury’ following the procedure “is not uncommon,” clinicians from the United…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In ischemic stroke patients weighing more than 100 kg, the fixed maximum dose limit for intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rTPA — alteplase)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although serum zinc concentration increases in response to intake of a liquid zinc supplement in Senegalese children, this is not the case with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients seen in the emergency department with chest pain, cardiac CT findings predict their risk for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a defective systemic atrioventricular valve needs to be replaced in patients who have corrected transposition of the great arteries, it should be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s now one more reason for statin loading before percutaneous coronary intervention. As well as reducing myocardial damage, high-dose atorvastatin given shortly before…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clonidine in the form of extended-release tablets improves response to psychostimulant treatment in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, results of a phase…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with acute MI undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, routine use of intravascular ultrasound to guide stent placement is not associated with better…
