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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: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:05

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:05

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 21:05

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

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

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:20

LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:20

LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Rethink the VTE prophylaxis mantra

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 18:55

LAS VEGAS – Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis – a sine qua non of the Joint Commission and others – doesn’t seem to prevent deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in hospitalized medical...

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

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