NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among stable patients with persistent total occlusion of the infarct-related artery after myocardial infarction, those who undergo late percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) fare…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Bone loss in postmenopausal women taking adjuvant letrozole for early breast cancer can be prevented with administration of zoledronic acid, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy before and during acute ischemic stroke hospitalization is associated with improved poststroke survival, and going off statin therapy in the hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to some previous results, intracoronary administration of a bolus of adenosine before elective percutaneous coronary intervention does not reduce periprocedural myocardial necrosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with concomitant cardiac disease requiring surgery and symptomatic carotid artery disease, carotid artery stenting before surgery yields favorable outcomes, a Dutch…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While carbapenems are the drugs of choice for treating infections due to Enterobacteriaceae that produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, treatment with combination beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor antibiotics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rizatriptan is effective for acute migraine in patients taking topiramate for migraine prophylaxis, and few experience adverse effects, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cutting balloon (CB) therapy is effective and safe for pulmonary artery stenosis resistant to conventional angioplasty techniques, results of a randomized study suggest.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with sore throat, signs and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis, either alone or in combination, cannot be used to definitively diagnose or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diuretic use is associated with an increased incidence of gout, an association mediated by increases in serum urate levels, according to findings published…
