Oct 26, 2018
Is aspirin alone sufficient for for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis following total knee arthroplasty ? A question of great interest has been addressed in a recent study of 41 537 patients who underwent the procedures with monitoring for events extending for...
Oct 26, 2018
British researchers studied a huge cohort of 992 061 patients newly treated with antihypertensive drugs using Cox proportional hazards models were to estimate adjusted hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals of incident lung cancer that were associated with use of...
Oct 26, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration has recently announced the fast-tracked approval of the first new pharmacological agent for the treatment of influenza to be released in more than 20 years. Baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza) was approved by the FDA for treatment of acute...
Oct 24, 2018
A list of substances that are prohibited for use by people engaged in competitive sport has been released by the World Anti-Doping Agency – effective January 2019. View the full list here
Oct 24, 2018
A high quality trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine involved random and blinded assignment of patients with acute respiratory failure or shock + hypoactive or hyperactive delirium to either receive IV haloperidol (maximum dose, 20 mg daily),...
