Treatment

Primary Care Approaches to Anxiety: CBT and SSRIs/SNRIs Lead Effective Treatment

Anxiety disorders are common yet often underrecognized in primary care, but a review shows that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), selective serotonin…

7 days ago

Triple Low-Dose BP-Lowering Pill Reduces Recurrent Stroke After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

In patients with prior intracerebral hemorrhage, adding a single pill combining three low-dose antihypertensive agents to standard care significantly reduced…

3 weeks ago

Corticosteroids Reduce Short-Term Deaths in Severe Pneumonia and ARDS

Adjunct low-dose, short-course corticosteroids probably reduce short-term mortality in adults with severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), according…

5 months ago

Periodontitis Treatment Effective for Atherosclerosis

A UK randomized, single-blind, controlled trial of 135 otherwise healthy participants with periodontitis showed that intensive periodontal treatment (IPT) improved…

9 months ago

Two Strategies to Improve Stroke Outcome

Two recent trials from China evaluated strategies to improve outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated within 4.5 hours…

9 months ago

Efficacy and Safety of Dapagliflozin/Spironolactone Combination in Heart Failure

A recent randomized crossover trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of combining dapagliflozin with spironolactone versus using dapagliflozin alone in…

10 months ago

Early Intensive BP-Lowering Beneficial in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

An individual patient-data pooled analysis of the four Intensive Blood Pressure (BP) Reduction in Acute Cerebral Haemorrhage Trials (INTERACT) supports…

11 months ago

Bedtime Antihypertensive Comparable to Morning Use

A Canadian study of adults with high blood pressure (BP) found no difference in health outcomes between taking BP medications…

1 year ago

Efficacy of Non-Surgical and Non-Interventional Treatments in Low Back Pain

A systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized trials showed that there is moderate certainty evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs…

1 year ago

AF Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy Linked to Syncope and Pacemaker Implantation

A Korean population-based study suggests an association between antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) and risk of pacemaker implantation or syncope in patients…

2 years ago

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