NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Unless they are already on appropriate antibiotics, all women undergoing cesarean delivery should be given prophylactic antibiotics within an hour before the procedure,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravitreal injection of clindamycin and dexamethasone to treat active ocular toxoplasmosis appears to be an alternative, and perhaps preferable, to classic treatment with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among adult patients being treated for hematologic malignancies and who are at high risk for tumor lysis syndrome with hyperuricemia, intravenous rasburicase does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is as effective as the 7-valent vaccine, which it replaces, in protecting against disease caused by the original…
Andrew N. Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN, a Neurohospitalist at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, discusses the prenatal evaluation as well as the treatment of pregnant women with epilepsy. He…
Andrew N. Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN, a Neurohospitalist at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, discusses the practice of genetic testing in epilepsy for determining diagnostics and treatment. Genetic testing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While contact isolation precautions are recommended for all patients colonized or infected with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), a European study shows that isolation is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 2010 Update of the practice parameter on the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis emphasizes education and self-administration of epinephrine for patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As long as eligibility criteria are strictly followed, it is safe to let “real world” patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention go home on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If recognized right away, most bile duct injuries related to laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be repaired quickly in a tertiary hepatobiliary center — within…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of angiotensin blocking therapy before cardiac surgery is not associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers report in the August American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high-risk patients having percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), bivalirudin was more effective than unfractionated heparin plus a…
