Patients in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) could benefit from the CICU health care team using a daily checklist to prevent infections and other common complications. According to a new American ...

Routine placement of atrial leads is common during implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation for primary prevention despite guidelines that discourage it—now there are new ...

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

John A. Johnson, MD, MBA: The microvascular complications of diabetes include anything from effects on [a patient’s] blood pressure, peripheral neuropathy, the ability to have abnormalities in their ...

Prediabetes is an extremely heterogeneous metabolic disorder. Scientists from several partner institutes of the German Center ...

Measles is back with a vengeance — and the danger doesn’t end when the rash fades. The US saw a dramatic rise in cases last ...

PHOENIX — Worried about increases in the number of women who die in childbirth, a unique obstetrics training program in the Valley is helping to save those lives. The Critical Care in Obstetrics ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — Metformin treatment may improve pregnancy outcomes for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), but it doesn't prevent gestational diabetes and its long-term effects on the ...

An alarming lack of compliance with assessments to prevent ophthalmologic and neuropathic complications associated with diabetes has been detected in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.