Frans Van de Werf, University of Leuven
Abstract Lancet 367:569-578
Results from a new study just published in the Lancet look into the role of facilitated PCI in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction. The ASSENT-4PCI study suggests that …
Ian D Pavord, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester
Abstract N Engl J Med 2006 ; 354:697
A key underlying factor in severe asthma may have been uncovered according to findings now published in the New England Journal of Medicine. …
Matthew J Thompson, University of Oxford
Abstract Lancet 2006; 367:397-403
More lives of children with meningococcal disease could be saved if previously overlooked early signs could be recognised by doctors and parents. That’s the finding of a study from …
Anthony H. Gershlick, Leicester University
Abstract: N Engl J Med 2005; 353:2758
If your patient with myocardial infarction has been treated with thrombolysis as primary therapy, and if reperfusion is not successful, it is more effective to use percutaneous …
Donald Redelmeier, University of Toronto
Abstract: Lancet 2006; 367:413
Treatment with the lipid lowering agents statins reduced the incidence of sepsis among a large group of patients with cardiovascular disease studied in Canada. Donald Redelmeier and co-workers report their …
Reporting from:
– San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2005
In this edition:
The targeted drug trastuzumab may be used in place of anthracyclines for breast adjuvant chemotherapy regimens, according to the findings of Dennis Slamon, who announced the BCIRG 006 …