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....
PHOENIX – A fractional carbon dioxide laser at 10,600 nm was the only one of three laser treatments for hypertrophic scars that produced significant overall improvements in a comparison of data on...
BOSTON – The risks of readmission and emergency surgery are low for patients with acute diverticulitis initially managed nonoperatively, a population-based, competing risk analysis found.
At a...
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Women with asymptomatic stage 2 pelvic organ prolapse can be reassured that it rarely progresses, according to the results of a study reported at the annual meeting of the Society...
Ingenol mebutate gel for the treatment of actinic keratosis is an effective adjunct therapy to cryosurgery, and the absence of attendant serious local reactions can increase compliance, based on data...
Permanent sacral nerve stimulation looked promising in a prospective, randomized controlled study to reduce symptoms in a select group of 21 adults with diarrhea-predominant or mixed irritable bowel...
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...
Neither perioperative aspirin therapy nor perioperative clonidine prevented death or MI in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who were at risk for major vascular complications, according to data...
Onein twenty-five hospitalized patients on any given day has an infection acquired from health care, and as many as one in nine of those will die.
At a press briefing, Dr. Michael Bell discussed...