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Dabigatran approved for VTE prevention and treatment
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 7, 2014
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FDA Panel Backs Approval of Inhaled Insulin for Type 1 and 2 Diabetes
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 7, 2014
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Naloxone autoinjector approved for caregiver use in treating opioid overdoses
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 3, 2014
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Intraoperative steroids found to increase MI risk in cardiac surgery patients
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 2, 2014
Major finding: Intraoperative methylprednisolone had no prophylactic effect in reducing mortality or serious morbidity, but was associated with a...
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FDA panel backs approval of inhaled insulin for type 1 and 2 diabetes
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 2, 2014
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Bariatric surgery’s benefit persists in type 2 diabetes
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: April 1, 2014
Major finding: Significantly more patients treated with one of two types of bariatric surgery achieved the HbA1c target (37.5% and 24.5%) after 3...
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Patients with LBBB get bigger long-term survival bang from CRT-D
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 30, 2014
Major finding: All-cause mortality over 7 years in patients with mild heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, and left bundle-branch block...
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ARB, ACE inhibitor at discharge curb heart failure readmissions
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 30, 2014
Major finding: Heart failure patients discharged on an ARB or ACE inhibitor had half the 30-day heart failure readmissions rate of those who were...
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VIDEO: Old, reliable drugs cut heart failure readmissions
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 30, 2014
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Survival after TAVR superior to surgery in high-risk aortic stenosis patients
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 29, 2014
Major finding: All-cause mortality was 14.2% among high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis 1 year after TAVR with a self-expanding aortic...
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VIDEO: CoreValve self-expanding aortic valve beat surgical replacement
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 29, 2014
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FDA panel rejects serelaxin approval for heart failure, but urges future study
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 28, 2014
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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Young Women Linked to Later CVD Benefit
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 28, 2014
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Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 28, 2014
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Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mechcatie
Publish date: March 28, 2014