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Off-label use of novel anticoagulants accelerates

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 18:30

WASHINGTON – The off-label use of novel oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in patients with valvular atrial fibrillation has climbed steeply since the drugs reached the marketplace, mirroring...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Many late-life hospitalizations and ED visits could be avoidable

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 15:15

WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable. Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Tenecteplase has risks but cuts hemodynamic decompensation in pulmonary embolism

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 22:00

Fibrinolytic therapy with tenecteplase prevents hemodynamic decompensation in patients with intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism but raises the risk of major hemorrhage and stroke, so its use is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance feasible and prognostic in obese patients

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 20:30

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance is highly feasible and prognostically useful in obese patients, a population in which stress imaging methods are limited, according to a study of nearly 300 patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Weekly exenatide shows long-term efficacy in type 2 diabetes

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 17:30

In patents with type 2 diabetes, weekly injections with exenatide controlled hemoglobin A1c levels more effectively than did daily glargine over a 3-year period, investigators reported...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Laser innovations target tattoos, acne, body fat

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:15

PHOENIX – Advances in laser technology allow dermatologists to remove tattoos in half the time but at twice the cost. Cold therapy for sebaceous glands theoretically could cure acne. Nonsurgical body...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

'Favorable signal' for secondary coronary prevention in STABILITY

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 16:50

WASHINGTON – A novel pharmacologic approach to the prevention of ischemic events in patients with stable coronary heart disease failed to reduce the combined risk of cardiovascular death, acute...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Dabigatran approved for VTE prevention and treatment

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:35

The novel oral anticoagulant dabigatran has been approved for treating and reducing the risk of recurrence of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, based on the results of four phase III...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Apixaban provides larger medical cost savings than other NOACs

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 14:45

WASHINGTON – Apixaban yields the great medical cost savings of the three novel oral anticoagulants available as alternatives to warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular atrial...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

No improvements in left ventricular function with metformin after myocardial infarction

Posted on: 31/03/2014 - 13:00

Treatment with metformin failed to show any positive effects on left ventricular function in diabetes-free patients who presented with ST-segment elevation MI, according to the results of a...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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