52. Should You Question Santa's Health?

The trial was terminated after  1015 patients with atrial cardiopathy had been randomized to receive either apixaban or aspirin for a mean follow-up of 1.8 years, recurrent stroke rates were identical...

15 Apr 20244min

TJA should not be delayed for trials of physical therapy, anti-inflammatory drug use, bracing, intra-articular steroid injections, or hyaluronic acid injections. For patients with obesity, proceed to...

12 Apr 20247min

randomized trial comparingbeta-blocker therapy (metoprolol or bisoprolol) with no beta-blocker in 5020 patients who had a normal left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after AMI median follow-up of...

11 Apr 20246min

During a mean 11 years of follow-up, current smokers' risks for cardiovascular-, cancer-, and respiratory-related deaths were 2, 3, and 13 times higher, respectively, than never smokers' risks. Former...

10 Apr 20245min

The primary cardiovascular end point was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke in a time-to-first-event analysis.Improvement innonfatal st...

9 Apr 20248min

Bottom line(ZTLido 1.8%) is a brand name lidocaine patch currently approced for postherpetic neuralgia and will stay that why for now as it did not beat placebo for the treatment of patients with chro...

5 Apr 20245min

patients who have new-onset transient AF detected during a hospitalization for noncardiac surgery or medical illness and are discharged in sinus rhythm, approximately 1 in 3 have AF detected in the ye...

4 Apr 20247min

Bottom line Omalizumab does seem to improve allergic reactions to peanuts but comes at a steep price tag. Likely only allergist will prescribe this drug but it is worth know about If you know or take ...

3 Apr 20248min