Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...

After PCI, there is no value to routine functional testing above and beyond standard care in high-risk patients, new data suggest. Doing such follow-up at 1 year had no impact on 2-year clinical ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics (DGX.N), opens new tab on Tuesday raised its full-year sales forecast after beating third-quarter expectations for revenue and profit, buoyed ...

An HIV screening test checks to see if you’ve been infected with the HIV virus. About 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV. But about 1 in 7 people don’t know their HIV status, and about 40% of new ...

Low-cost, routine testing may help to reduce disparities and health care costs for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart ...

There is no incremental clinical benefit from routine surveillance stress testing (vs standard care alone) in high-risk patients with previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a subgroup ...

Among 267 participants, only five (1.9%; 95% CI, 0.8-4.3%) had glucocorticoid therapy–induced adrenal insufficiency, with four of them having an AddiQoL-30 score ≤ 85. A total of 75 patients (34%; 95% ...