NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children in the ER, use of ketamine at a high IV dose increases the risks of airway and respiratory events, emesis, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of ACE inhibitors prior to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with an increased risk of death, need for inotropic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Five-year survival is similar whether patients with acute MI are treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or pre-hospital lysis followed by transfer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of 18F-FDG PET imaging can reduce the rate of futile laparotomies in patients with colorectal liver metastases from 45% to 28%, according…
Yan Trokel, MD, Cosmetic Surgeon, Founder and Director, The YAN Center for Corrective & Cosmetic Surgery, discusses the Zerona laser which allows loss of body fat in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of trial data suggests that erythropoietin can be safely used to treat anemia in patients with chronic heart failure and may…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Institute of Medicine recommends that normal weight women gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy, but now new research indicates that this…
Jay Alberts, PhD, Assistant Staff, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, discusses findings of deep brain stimulation research, which demonstrated that cognitive performance and motor tasks were worse under…
Ivan Grunberger, MD, Chief of Urology, New York Methodist Hospital, Clinical Professor of Urology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, and Edward Zoltan, MD, director of Voiding Dysfunction New…
Michael Benninger, MD, Chairman, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the effects of herd immunization with pneumococcal vaccination. Summary: Community vaccination against pneumococcal disease has showed a…
