WASHINGTON – What can explain the failure of SYMPLICITY HTN-3? After clinical success in reducing blood pressure by 20-30 mm HG in patients with resistant hypertension, the renal denervation...
WASHINGTON – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve device showed significantly higher 1-year survival than did surgical replacement, in a randomized trial of patients with severe...
WASHINGTON – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve device showed significantly higher 1-year survival than did surgical replacement, in a randomized trial of patients with severe...
Drinking two or more diet drinks a day was associated with a 29% increased risk of an incident cardiovascular event and a 26% increased risk of all-cause death compared with less diet drink...
Drinking two or more diet drinks a day was associated with a 29% increased risk of an incident cardiovascular event and a 26% increased risk of all-cause death compared with less diet drink...
Men with erectile dysfunction had a better than threefold improvement in erectile function after receiving statin treatment compared with men randomized to placebo in a meta-analysis of 11 controlled...
New guidelines for managing patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation recommend dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban, as well as warfarin, and call on physicians to use a more comprehensive...
GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously supported the approval of the Cologuard DNA stool test, a first-line diagnostic test to screen for the detection of...
WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – The anti-interleukin-12/23 biologic agents ustekinumab and briakinumab were associated with a statistically significant 4.23-fold increased risk of major adverse cardiac events in...
A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...