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Vast majority of ED visits for acute heart failure become admissions

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

Nearly six of every seven patients presenting to U.S. emergency departments with acute heart failure are admitted. This means acute heart failure is "a major challenge" to emergency...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Draft recommendations back aspirin for preeclampsia prevention

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 14:05

Prophylactic low-dose aspirin – 81 mg per day – should be started after 12 weeks’ gestation in women at high risk for developing preeclampsia, according to a draft recommendation issued by the U.S....

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC: Young teens’ birth rates drop 67%

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 22:50

Despite a 67% drop in the birth rate among teens aged 15-17 years over the past 2 decades, there is still plenty of room for improvement, according to a report issued April 8 by the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

FDA panel endorses antibacterial dalbavancin

Posted on: 01/04/2014 - 14:20

SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to support the approval of the antibacterial drug dalbavancin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Study of hs-cTnT in chest pain intriguing, but flawed

Posted on: 30/03/2014 - 22:55

WASHINGTON – The lack of detectable high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in patients presenting with chest pain may be a marker of minimal risk of myocardial infarction within 30 days, according to...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Most health care–associated infections aren’t device associated

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 18:30

An estimated 4% of inpatients at U.S. acute care hospitals have at least one health care–associated infection on any given day, according to a report published online March 26 in the New England...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Protocol-based resuscitation fails to beat usual care in early sepsis

Posted on: 18/03/2014 - 18:25

Protocol-based resuscitation did not reduce sepsis deaths or morbidity, compared with usual care, in the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock study conducted at 31 U.S. academic hospitals. Among...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Intramuscular flu vaccine is safest for atopic dermatitis patients

Posted on: 01/03/2014 - 22:00

SAN DIEGO – Patients with atopic dermatitis should routinely receive the intramuscular form of the influenza vaccine Fluzone unless the affected area of skin has been swabbed and found to have normal...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

RAS blocker prescriptions still lag for ACS patients

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 21:00

Fifteen percent of eligible patients treated for acute coronary syndrome still are not given ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers as recommended, according to data from a quality...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

CDC: Younger adults least likely to be vaccinated and most likely to be hard hit by flu

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:45

So far, the 2013-2014 influenza season has been hardest on young and middle-age adults, with 61% of flu hospitalizations occurring in the 18- to 64-year-old age group, the Centers for Disease Control...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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