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Vitamin D landscape marked by lack of consensus

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 21:14

If you’re stumped about what to tell patients who ask you if they should be adding supplemental vitamin D to their diet, you’re not alone. Speaker after speaker at a public conference on vitamin D...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology
Type: News Item

Dabigatran raises major bleeding risk

Posted on: 03/11/2014 - 21:00

Dabigatran significantly raises the risk of major bleeding and gastrointestinal bleeding across all subgroups of patients with atrial fibrillation, and particularly in African Americans and patients...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

Coronary artery calcification can guide aspirin therapy

Posted on: 06/05/2014 - 21:00

The benefits of aspirin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease outweigh the risks in patients who have coronary artery calcification scores of 100 or more, while the opposite is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Pulsatile tinnitus looms large in fibromuscular dysplasia

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 20:30

WASHINGTON – Think cerebrovascular fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged woman who presents with a complaint of pulsatile tinnitus. That’s the take-home message from a new analysis of the <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Exploring SYMPLICITY’s failure, Part 2

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 18:35

WASHINGTON – Far from being doomed after the failure SYMPLICITY HTN-3, renal denervation for refractory hypertension will continue to be explored. But it can’t go very far without finding a way to...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Highlights of the Annual Stroke Conference

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 21:40

SAN DIEGO – Dr. Aneesh B. Singhal, Director of Neurology Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care, discusses highlights of this year’s Annual...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Moderate exercise reduced women’s stroke risk

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 18:45

SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise reduced the risk of stroke by 12%-22% and appeared to offset some of the increased stroke risk from postmenopausal hormone therapy. We spoke to Sophia S. Wang, Ph.D.,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology
Type: News Item

Moderate exercise reduces female stroke risk

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 17:30

SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise significantly reduced the risk of stroke in women and seemed to offset much but not all of the increased stroke risk in postmenopausal women on hormone therapy, a large...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology
Type: News Item

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