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

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?

Mentioned myocardial infarction and stroke are sequences of arterial atherosclerosis with established risk factors being: hypertension, tobacco abuse, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, sedentary life style and presence of clinically significant atherosclerosis in relatives of first degree. There is no...

ACEI are known for their ability to reduce afterload effectively and even to contribute favorably to cardiac remodeling in heart failure. Results described, therefore, are logical, even though some "statistically significant" differences, like reduction of mean pressure by 1 mm Hg, are...

To stent or not to stent: presence and degree of coronary artery disease, effectiveness of medical therapy and significance of symptoms and, therefore, indications for coronary stents placement are determined by very same physicians who place stents. Stents are reimbursed 10-20 times better...

More than half of U.S. adults are overweight, nearly one-quarter are obese and about 10% are morbidly obese. Only effective treatment of morbid obesity is gastric bypass; there is no good treatment for obesity or overweight. Acadesine was shown to be effective in the mice, and if effective in the humans...