A-Fib Tied to Adverse Outcomes in Patients Undergoing PCI
Condition is linked to post-procedural bleeding, heart failure, cardiogenic shock, in-hospital mortality
CDC Urges Prevention, Early Recognition of Sepsis
Know the signs of extreme response to infection; consider it a medical emergency
Steep Rise in U.S. Drug Prices Tied to Patent Monopolies
Letting Medicare and Medicaid negotiate pricing would likely help bring costs down, researchers say
Disease-Guided Approach Ups Specificity of Statin Treatment
Improvement in specificity for coronary heart disease events with CAC-, cPB-guided reclassification
Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Can Lead to Eating Disorder
Case report describes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder after pudendal nerve entrapment
Metformin Linked to Increased Risk of Acute Dialysis in T2DM
Metformin-associated one-year risk of acute dialysis increased by 50.3 per 100,000 individuals
Benefits, Harms of Breast Cancer Screening Vary With Risk, Density
For all screening intervals, benefits and over-diagnosis increase with breast density, relative risk
Donor Fecal Microbiota Transplant Effective for C. difficile Infection
Donor stool safe, more efficacious than autologous transplantation in preventing C. difficile
Imaging Shows Zika-Linked Congenital Brain Abnormalities
Images of the brains of Brazilian newborns and fetuses suggest the virus affects multiple sites
Albuminuria Linked to Higher Nighttime SBP in Hypertension
Significantly higher nighttime systolic BP, especially in patients with diabetes and low eGFR
