NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Starting antibiotics within the first two days of hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) significantly improved outcomes in a large cohort study…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the testing of new compounds like supplements and anti-amyloid compounds to help protect healthy brains before Alzheimer’s disease…
Arya Nick Shamie, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the use of stem cells in spinal cord injury to…
Reza Jarrahy, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCLA, discusses Operation MEND, which is a collaboration UCLA has with the US Army to treat craniofacial…
Joseph Demer, MD, Professor of Opthalmology and Neurology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses orbital MRI with relation to diagnosis of the many types of strabismus. Using…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine treatment, and the strategy doctors must use when approaching…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Including tirofiban (Aggrastat) in pre-hospital protocols can improve the outcomes of angioplasty for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to randomized trial results.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In preterm infants born at a gestational age of 32 weeks or younger, keeping oxygen saturation low in the first few weeks of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Superficial, or “nuisance,” bleeding troubled more than a quarter of patients on dual-antiplatelet therapy following the implantation of drug-eluting stents, according to new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delivery of the neonate via emergency cesarean section occurs more quickly with a vertical skin incision than a transverse skin incision, but this…
