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Statins are a cornerstone of treatment for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Their powerful lipid-lowering and plaque-stabilization effects are well known, as is their ability to reduce myocardial infarction and death.
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Tiotropium for uncontrolled asthma, sibutramine pulled from market, incidence and mortality data from WHI, FDA Actions.
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Have people with HTN reduced salt intake?; The P450 system and CV outcomes with clopidogrel; Risk assessment for bleeding during warfarin therapy; Coenzyme Q10 for Peyronie's disease; Impact of using A1c to diagnose pre-diabetes; Should tiotropium be a maintenance asthma medication?
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Nearly every reference source discussing the primary management of advanced ovarian cancer will highlight the role of surgical cytoreduction as an important first step in the care of this disease.
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A structured search and analysis was conducted of all published articles describing historical and physical features of children with culture-confirmed bacterial meningitis.
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Post-marketing surveillance outside the United States of the two FDA-licensed rotavirus vaccines, RotaTeq (Merck, licensed in 2006) and Rotarix (GSK Biologicals, licensed in 2008), have identified a very low but increased risk (1 case/100,000 vaccinated infants) of intussusception following Rotarix vaccination.
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The authors tested samples sent to stanford hospital microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI).
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Cardiogenic unilateral pulmonary edema is unusual and, if it is the presenting manifestation of heart failure, diagnosis and appropriate treatment may be delayed.
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There is no medical therapy for aortic stenosis (AS), and balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) has sub-optimal long-term results.