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Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
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Elevated troponin I is a nonspecific finding, but suggests a poor prognosis regardless of its cause. These investigators from Israel sought to clarify these observations.
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Haissaguerre and his colleagues from twenty-two world-wide arrhythmia referral centers collected 206 patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.
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Both short (6 or fewer hours) and long (9 or more hours) habitual sleep durations predict an increased risk of weight gain in adults.
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Early age at initiation of smoking is associated with an increased mortality risk in women. Quitting reduces the excess mortality risk for all major causes of smoking related deaths.
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The FDA has approved a drug to help patients regain bowel function following bowel resection surgery.
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Vasculopathy knows no compartmentalization. Clinicians expect that patients with peripheral arterial disease will also commonly have comorbid coronary or cerebrovascular disease, even though it may be silent.
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Data from the Nurses Health Study revealed that abdominal obesity in females is significantly and positively associated with all-cause and cause-specific mortality and specifically is associated with increased CVD mortality even in normal-weight women.
