Friday, February 24, 2012

Medical News

Medical News


Combined use of recommended HF therapy enhances survival

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

A study has found that using a combination of several key guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure treatment improves 2-year survival by 90%.

EMA recommends lifting aprotinin suspension

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

The European Medicines Agency has recommended lifting the suspension of aprotinin for a restricted range of indications.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose has limited, short-term benefits

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

Self-monitoring of blood glucose provides a small improvement in glycemic control for up to 6 months in patients with a diabetes duration of more than 1 year who are not using insulin, but this effect subsides by 12 months, report Dutch researchers.

Fructose may not be to blame for the obesity epidemic

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

Fructose has no effect on weight gain when compared with diets that provide the same amount of calories from other sources of carbohydrate, suggest results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

MRSA infection highly prevalent in pediatric open airway surgery

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

Children undergoing open-neck airway surgery should be routinely screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, US researchers recommend.

Microhemorrhage tied to brain arteriovenous malformation rupture risk

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

The presence of silent intralesional microhemorrhage is associated with past and future symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients in brain arteriovenous malformation, research suggests.

PE disease characteristics differ between Europe and USA

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

Major differences in the clinical characteristics, diagnostic management, and prevalence of pulmonary embolism exist between Europe and the USA, study findings indicate.

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