NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mortality in acute coronary syndromes is no lower among those taking aspirin before the event than in non-aspirin users. This apparent “aspirin paradox”…
Our co-founder of TheDoctorsChannel.com, David Best, MD, MBA, was at the 1960 NFL World Championship Game, when the Philadelphia Eagles defeated Bart Starr and the Green Bay Packers…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the ongoing problem of Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections in hospitals in the United…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s a 25% chance that patients with hypersensitivity to cephalosporins will also react to penicillins, a European group reports, but the risk with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of inhaled corticosteroids, whether for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), increases the likelihood of diabetes onset and diabetes progression,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Successful outcomes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are statistically the same whether the sperm used is testicular or epididymal in origin, and whether…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with bipolar disorder treated with more than one second-generation antipsychotic drug do not do any better than those treated with one drug,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with overactive bladder (OAB) may do better with fesoterodine 8 mg/d than with tolterodine extended release 4mg/d, according to the results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The high case mortality rate associated with H5N1 avian influenza in humans can be significantly reduced with oseltamivir therapy, even when started a…
Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard speaks about the impact of Personal Health Records on doctor-patient communication, patient adherence, decreased medical costs, and improved health outcomes. Jeff Donnell will…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes in patients with acute MI undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention are better with increasing levels of LDL cholesterol, a Korean group reports. However,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Training delivery ward personnel in manual assistance techniques in the crowning stage of labor significantly decreases the occurrence of anal sphincter tears, a…