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Rea and colleagues report a longitudinal survey of cardiac arrests in King County, Wash, (excluding the city of Seattle) from 1977 to 2001. The study, from a region with perhaps the best emergency medical system in the country, adds important data.
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This study, following on the heels of the recent negative trial in postpercutaneous coronary stenting patients, suggests that we have more to learn about the role of folic acid and homocysteine in CAD.
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Current supportive heart failure therapy has reduced morbidity and mortality, but adverse outcomes are still frequent. Clearly, an approach based upon eliminating the cause of myocardial dysfunction would be advantageous. This study is an attempt to pursue this line of therapy for viral myocarditis using the antiviral agent INFB.
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Sutton and colleagues from New Zealand explored the concept that natriuretic peptide levels (ANP, BNP) may aide in the determination of the severity of mitral regurgitation.
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Sweeney and colleagues from the Mode Selection Trial report on the effects of ventricular pacing in patients with sinus node dysfunction.
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This report is a detailed analysis of the approximate 6000 diabetics in the Heart Protection Study, which investigated the efficacy of simvastatin (simva) and antioxidant vitamins.
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Nasally Administered Flu Vaccine Comes to United States; Paxil: Not Recommended for Children; Prilosec Granted OTC Status; Finasteride and Prostate Cancer; Xolair: First Biologic Agent for Asthma; West Nile Virus Update; Study Shows COX-2 Inhibitors Appear Safe with Aspirin in Asthma Patients; Lamictal Approved for Bipolar Disorder
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Increase in Blood Glucose Concentration During Antihypertensive
Treatment as a Predictor of Myocardial Infarction; Adverse Drug Events
in Ambulatory Care; Prevention of Hip Fracture by External Hip
Protectors; Rapid MRI vs Radiographs for Patients with Low Back Pain;
Effectiveness of Anticholinergic Drugs Compared with Placebo in the
Treatment of Overactive Bladder; A Randomized Trial of a Low
Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity
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An analysis of the effect of daily estrogen-progestin administration to postmenopausal women was summarized on the Internet site of the New England Journal of Medicine on March 17. The authors' message suggests that postmenopausal hormone therapy should be used only as brief treatment for severe menopausal symptoms.
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Sacrospinous cervicocolpopexy with uterine conservation in elderly women with prolapse can be used to avoid the morbidity of hysterectomy.
