Program Overview The Best Practice Series in Heart Failure is a series of 3-4 minute videos featuring top physicians discussing the best ways to diagnose and treat Heart…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis can undergo low- or intermediate- risk noncardiac surgery relatively safely, new research shows. Severe aortic stenosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding a 2-week course of triple antibiotic therapy to existing medications helps induce and maintain remission of ulcerative colitis (UC), according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In orthopedic surgery, closing incisions with staples rather than sutures nearly quadruples the risk of wound infection, according to a meta-analysis in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gene expression-based signatures for lung cancer don’t seem any better than currently used prognostic factors at identifying patients who need adjuvant chemotherapy, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adolescents with chronic pancreatitis can have long-term relief from pain after therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), researchers from China say. The goal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Appropriate use of intravenous narcotics is safe and perhaps even beneficial in patients with acute coronary syndromes, according to Israeli researchers. In general,…
Program Overview The Best Practice Series in Heart Failure is a series of 3-4 minute videos featuring top physicians discussing the best ways to diagnose and treat Heart…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-potency, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) may improve survival for patients with medically inoperable early stage lung cancer, results of a multicenter phase…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urine dipsticks are unreliable and cost-ineffective at screening children for chronic kidney disease, investigators report in the April issue of Pediatrics. In 2007,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new practice parameter from the American Academy of Neurology calls for doctors to identify and treat nonmotor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s…
Program OverviewThe Best Practice Series in Heart Failure is a series of 3-4 minute videos featuring top physicians discussing the best ways to diagnose and treat Heart Failure…