News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: November 9, 2015
Key clinical point:More than 16 million U.S. adults could benefit from a lower systolic blood pressure treatment goal of 120 mm Hg or less.
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News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: November 8, 2015
Isosorbide mononitrate therapy may be associated with lower levels of daily activity in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: November 5, 2015
Elevated plasma soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) levels may predict clinical chronic kidney disease.
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: November 2, 2015
Fewer than half of adolescents who present at emergency departments after a sexual assault are tested for infections or receive recommended prophylaxi...
Article Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: November 1, 2015
Topics include: Low-risk prostate cancer • CVD and extremes of sleep • S aureus in pediatric CAP • Sunscreens with DNA repair enzyme...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 30, 2015
One in twenty perioperative medication administrations may involve a medication error and/or adverse drug event, according to a new study.
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 30, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with multiple AKs may be treated either sequentially or simultaneously with ingenol mebutate gel, with similar effica...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 22, 2015
Key clinical point: The incidence of select mycobacterial and fungal infections in patients taking TNFIs is low.
Major finding: Only 0.51% of pati...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 22, 2015
Key clinical point:This is the first convincing evidence of an increased risk of infection associated with opioid use in patients with rheumatoid ...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 20, 2015
Key clinical point:Injections of botulinum toxin into epicardial fat pads during cardiac surgery may provide long-term suppression of atrial fibri...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 15, 2015
Key clinical point:Glutamate-based neuroimaging could identify epileptic foci in epilepsy patients who are nonlesional on conventional MRI.
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News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 14, 2015
The expansion of the solar energy industry in Coccidioides-endemic areas of the Southwestern United States is exposing more workers to the infection, ...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 14, 2015
The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in children is low but has increased significantly since 1999, particularly among isolates f...
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 13, 2015
A significant proportion of uninjured high school athletes reported at least one symptom of concussion.
News Author: Bianca Nogrady Publish date: October 13, 2015
Individuals infected with the hepatitis C virus who have a higher ratio of alanine aminotransferase to aspartate aminotransferase may be at greater ri...
