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Here is another of the many reviews on this topic. Free full text.  

Here is a free full text review in CCJM. TIA may be going the way of unstable angina in that its numbers are diminishing. That does not me...

This review emphasizes that statin myopathy is heterogeneous, and discussed the newly appreciated necrotizing autoimmune variant which may ...

From a recent paper : Methods and Results—We included in this analysis 174 consecutive patients with LVSD who had a LVEF greater than or e...

What's the first thing you reach for on the crash cart when you glance at this ?

Great discussions on the topic at Dr. Smith's ECG blog and EMS 12-Lead .

A Cochrane review suggests they may be helpful even in patients who are not depressed.

Here is a summary of where things are.

Much of the research on this topic was done a decade or so ago. Based on this report it looks like the outcome has improved since then. S...

Here’s a nice review in the Annals of Intensive Care.

This topic was recently reviewed in Current Opinion in Cardiology . From the abstract: In the past 18 months, the American College of Ches...

Surprising findings from a review in BMC Emergency Medicine.

This review is available as free full text. Though rare in the antibiotic era it seems to be occurring with increasing frequency for uncle...

From a fascinating paper in Modern Pathology: 21 paraffin-embedded lung biopsies from patients diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibros...

Via Archives of Medical Science .

From a recent study : Background—Patients with heart failure (HF) are typically designated as having reduced or preserved ejection fractio...

It proved effective in this study of patients at renal risk undergoing coronary angiography: Contrast medium–induced acute kidney injury ...

From a recent paper : Methods A retrospective time-series segmented regression analysis was conducted in a tertiary centre from January 20...

A review of octreotide recently appeared in Chest. Octreotide is a synthetic analogue of somatostatin. An understanding of the biologic an...

It can be as bad as Alzheimer's according to this study by Vanderbilt researchers. There's an interesting discussion of the paper a...