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CDC: Vaccines prevent millions of illnesses, but measles makes a return

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 23:10

Vaccines will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 premature deaths during the lifetimes of children born during the two decades after the Vaccines for...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Mortality nearly halved with dual antiplatelet therapy in severe PAD

Posted on: 23/04/2014 - 16:15

WASHINGTON – Long-term dual-antiplatelet therapy may provide a mortality benefit over aspirin alone in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease. In an observational study of 629 patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Bivalirudin called safe and effective in HIT

Posted on: 21/04/2014 - 20:45

WASHINGTON – Bivalirudin is an attractive off-label option for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, Dr. Lee Joseph said at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology....

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

A fib–associated stroke jumped 42% in 2000s

Posted on: 21/04/2014 - 19:57

WASHINGTON – A third more Americans were hospitalized for ischemic stroke in 2010 than 7 years before, and the incidence of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation grew even more sharply, up by...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Even mild preop sepsis boosts postop thrombosis risk

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 19:50

WASHINGTON – Preoperative sepsis proved to be an important independent risk factor for both arterial and venous thrombosis during or after surgery in an analysis of nearly 1.75 million U.S. surgical...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Simvastatin improves survival in cirrhosis-linked variceal bleeding

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 18:10

LONDON – Simvastatin improves short-term survival after variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis, results of a phase III, randomized, double blind study have shown. At 2 years’ follow-up in the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Some providers quicker to tube feed end-of-life elderly

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 17:00

Hospitalists who care for dementia patients near the end of life are much less likely to introduce a feeding tube than other physicians who follow such patients. Compared with nonhospital...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACC/AHA cardiovascular risk equations get a thumbs-up

Posted on: 14/04/2014 - 14:15

WASHINGTON – The controversial cardiovascular risk estimator introduced in the current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association risk-assessment guidelines demonstrated "moderate...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

FDA expands uses for cardiac resynchronization devices

Posted on: 11/04/2014 - 17:00

The approval of cardiac resynchronization pacemakers and defibrillators manufactured by Medtronic has been expanded to include patients with atrioventricular block and less severe heart failure, the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Ultrasound-facilitated endovascular thrombolysis 'a game changer' in acute pulmonary embolism

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 20:35

WASHINGTON – Ultrasound-facilitated, catheter-directed, low-dose fibrinolysis for acute massive or submassive pulmonary embolism significantly improves right ventricular function, reduces pulmonary...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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