Geriatrics
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VIDEO: Beyond amyloid, the complexity of Alzheimer’s deepens
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Drug-eluting stent recipients can safely have surgery sooner
Key clinical point: The risk of noncardiac surgery is elevated only when the operation occurs during the first month after stenting. Major finding...
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Fecal transplant cures most with C. difficile, but one dies
AMSTERDAM – Fecal transplants provided a clinical cure in 97% of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in a small prospective...
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Stem cells show heart failure benefits in phase II trial
Severe, ischemic heart failure patients saw declines in death and cardiovascular hospitalizations after myocardial injection with autologous bone...
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Three things hospitalists ‘do for no reason’... and should stop
Dr. Leonard Feldman, a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has presented a list of usually unnecessary hospitalist practices for 5...
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Early antiarrhythmic drugs boost survival in shock-refractory cardiac arrest
Key clinical point: Routine use of injectable amiodarone or lidocaine by paramedics in cases of shock-refractory VF/VT out-of-hospital cardiac...
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VIDEO: Unraveling Alzheimer’s pathogenesis while testing lifestyle interventions
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Losmapimod failed to beat placebo in acute MI trial
Key clinical point: The anti-inflammatory drug losmapimod missed its composite primary endpoint in a phase 3 study of patients with acute...
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VIDEO: New ACC consensus guidance addresses nonstatin therapies
A new expert consensus decision pathway for the use of nonstatin therapies to lower cholesterol in high-risk patients released this week by the...
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Prepsychosis links with elevated metabolic syndrome
Key clinical point: People at high risk for a first psychosis episode had an increased prevalence of certain metabolic syndrome components,...
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Heart attack patients getting younger, fatter, and less healthy
Key clinical point: Despite advances in understanding heart disease prevention, patients with heart attack are younger and less healthy than they...