NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preterm infants requiring respiratory support do not benefit from inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), according to the results of a meta-analysis of individual patient…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing bivalirudin for 4 hours after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) facilitates early microvascular reperfusion without an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Canaloplasty works just as well as trabeculectomy in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma, according to results of a retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Heart rate characteristics (HRC) monitoring can improve survival rates in very low birth weight infants, according to a randomized study. Bedside HRC monitoring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large increase in the number of lymph nodes evaluated during surgery for colon cancer — a quality improvement metric– has not had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Endoscopic ablation of Barrett’s esophagus can bury metaplastic glands under a layer of neosquamousepithelium. However, how often this happens and its importance still…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vascular access in patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is more reliably and rapidly obtained via needle insertion into the marrow cavity of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering acetylcysteine to patients before and after they undergo coronary or peripheral angiography does not reduce the occurrence of contrast-induced nephropathy, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Repairing vaginal prolapse with polypropylene mesh may cause more problems than it solves, according to results of a double-blind randomized study. In the…
