NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive statin therapy is more effective than standard doses in reducing the risk of major adverse events after angioplasty for acute coronary syndromes…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large study of revascularization strategies in diabetics with multivessel coronary artery disease, which set out to show that angioplasty is not inferior…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving intravenous drugs during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does not improve survival, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute MI is associated with a lower risk of major bleeding and other adverse events than transfemoral…
E. Murat Tuzcu, MD, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the current limitations of catheter-based valve replacements, including problems with the femoral artery route and atherosclerosis and paravalvular…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An “important” relation exists between platelet reactivity and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease who are on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women younger than 65 years old and men younger than 55 with acute chest pain benefit most from cardiac CT angiography (CTA) for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In trauma patients with possible neck injury, paramedics can apply the Canadian C-Spine Rule to reliably avoid unnecessary spinal immobilization “without missing any…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chronic renal disease appears to reduce platelet responsiveness to clopidogrel, according to a Korean research team. Furthermore, increasing the dose of clopidogrel does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical cancer screening should begin when a woman turns 21, according to newly revised evidence-based guidelines issued November 20 by the American College…
