News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 20, 2016
Key clinical point: CSF lactate concentration accurately identifies bacterial meningitis that develops after neurosurgery.
Major finding: CSF lact...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 20, 2016
Key clinical point: Restrictions on the number of buprenorphine prescriptions a physician can write in a given year do not hinder addiction treatm...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 19, 2016
Key clinical point: The ASCO clinical practice guideline on postmastectomy radiotherapy has been updated to help clinicians decide which patients ...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 14, 2016
Key clinical point: Four factors raise the risk that patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement will develop infective endocarditi...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 13, 2016
Key clinical point: Current smoking was associated with higher left ventricular mass, a higher LV mass-to-volume ratio, and worse diastolic functi...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 13, 2016
Key clinical point: Lowering LDL cholesterol yields the same cardiovascular benefits in rheumatoid arthritis patients as in the general population...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 12, 2016
The increase in soccer-related injuries was much greater among girls than among boys, paralleling the much larger increase in soccer participation amo...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 6, 2016
Key clinical point: The combination of everolimus plus bevacizumab showed promise against advanced non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma characterize...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 6, 2016
High levels of free thyroxine are associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death, even in euthyroid adults.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 6, 2016
Whole brain radiotherapy provided no clinically significant benefit for most patients with metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: September 6, 2016
Antibiotic susceptibility in bacteria cultured from transplant recipients at a single hospital differed markedly from that in hospital-wide antibio...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 31, 2016
Adding salmeterol to fluticasone therapy didn’t increase serious asthma-related events among children.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 31, 2016
Key clinical point: Adding formoterol to budesonide in a fixed-dose combination does not increase serious asthma-related events in adolescents and...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 30, 2016
Key clinical point: Off-hours presentation to the hospital with STEMI didn’t affect PCI outcomes in a large international trial.
Major findi...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 30, 2016
Key clinical point: Invasive coronary therapies largely account for the decade-long decline in mortality among patients hospitalized in the U.K.
