Nurse Program Provides Good RESPONSE for ACS Secondary Prevention
Reasonably good results were obtained using nurses to counsel patients on secondary prevention after ACS, with a 17% relative reduction in calculated 10-year mortality over and above that achieved with usual care in the RESPONSE study.
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CURRENT-OASIS 7 Published: Double-Dose Clopidogrel in PCI Debated
Although there was no benefit of doubling the clopidogrel dose in the overall ACS population studied, benefits were suggested in the PCI subgroup. But are these robust enough?
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FDA Clears 3-Minute, 3-Drop Pregnancy Test
The FDA granted clearance to market a lateral flow pregnancy radioimmunoassay for the qualitative detection of human chorionic gonadotropin.
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