GLG News by Physicians who Treat End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Heartburn and heart attack are two types of discomfort in the chest. Patients with coronary artery disease AND gastro-esophageal reflux disease often take PPI for chest pain and, therefore, tend to seek medical attention in more advanced stages of coronary artery disease.

This collaboration will be very successful: the trial involving 20 000 patients will take a long time to complete. During the trial utilization of stents will not change. Upon completion of the trial it will become even more obvious that 2 years of "blood thinning" is better than 1 year for stents potency...

Amiodarone is still one of the best drugs for atrial fibrillation despite "rare incidence" of cirrhosis, lung fibrosis and now "rare muscle injury".

Utilization of a device in a setting of marginal data is not driven by that data, but by the reimbursement rates. Medtronc might loose the battle, but stents are still winning the war.

Currently, bioabsorbable stents do not provide better solution than traditional stents for the major problems of early thrombosis and absence of long term advantage compared with medical management (in appropriate patients).

The risks of death and myocardial ischemia have not been disproved. The data of stroke possibility was not finalized by FDA.

The headline is misleading. C. Dif. diarrhea is well established consequence of antibiotics induced imbalance in the colon. The cited study did not disprove that. What the study actually showed that C. Dif. diarrhea can be also induced by other, unknown so far, factors as well as by antibiotics.

The data obtained from genetic analysis will be more of inherited predisposition to certain conditions type rather than cause-sequence relationship type. Therefore, it can be compared to other analyzes of risk factors such as credit score or car insurance assessment. It will be, therefore, read, appreciated and...

Of course anticholinergic drugs leave sympathetic stimulation unbalanced. They, therefore, may act in certain individuals as weak sympathomimetic producing arrhythmias, hypertension, tachycardia, vasoconstriction etc. with know sequences, such as atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular and coronary effects....

How somebody can possibly come up with mentioned estimation: "...20,000 people die from radon-induced lung cancer every year..."? Where is the denominator: how many non-smokers with documented constant radon exposure acquire lung malignancy?