ESC
<ѻý>ESC: Will CvLPRIT Change Practice?ѻý>
BARCELONA -- Cardiologists react to findings from the CvLPRIT study, which challenge not only traditional thinking but also existing guidelines from both the U.S. and Europe, all of which say that treating nonculprit arteries in STEMI patients may be harmful.
Sep 03, 2014
<ѻý>ESC: Mixed Results with Steroids in TB Pericarditisѻý>
BARCELONA -- Adding steroids to anti-tuberculosis treatment for patients with tuberculous pericarditis can reduce the risk of complication and the resulting hospital admission, but adding prednisolone to tuberculosis treatment did not reduce the risk of death, researchers said here.
Sep 03, 2014
<ѻý>ESC: Peto Analysis Called Short on Proof of Simvastatin/ Ezetimibe Cancer Safetyѻý>
SEATTLE -- Simvastatin/ezetimibe (Vytorin) may increase the risk of cancer after all, concluded a leading American biostatistician who dismissed as prematurely reassuring an analysis by Richard Peto, Ph.D., F.R.S., that found the link with excess malignancy to be overblown.
Sep 04, 2008