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Data continue to lend support for the administration of influenza vaccine to individuals with serious egg allergy.
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A total of 27,276 U.S. physicians received an invitation to participate in a prospective study using the validated Maslach Burnout Inventory. Of the 26% of physicians who completed the survey, nearly 46% reported at least one symptom associated with professional burnout.
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The authors concluded that the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was associated with an increased risk of coronary events for more than 5 years after the first myocardial infarction.
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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is performed in more than 600,000 patients annually in the United States, and women make up approximately one-third of this population.
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This paper reviews drug therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation in the Medicare population. The author extracted a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries who were enrolled in Medicare Part D.
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This paper details the result of a population-based cohort study of all Ontario, Canada, residents older than 66 years of age who began warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation over an 11-year period.
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Angioedema is an infrequent, but serious, adverse event from drug therapy. Drugs that affect the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system have been linked to angioedema, but the relative frequency of this complication with these drugs is poorly understood.
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As our population ages and outcomes from revascularization also improve, more elderly patients are being referred for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).