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1. Carotid stent an option for high-risk patients.(POEMs)
...stenting safe and effective for high-risk patients with carotid stenosis? Setting...endarterectomy for carefully selected high-risk patients. This trial creates an optimal...stenting versus endarterectomy in high-risk patients. N Engl J Med October 7, 2004...
February 15, 2005; American Family Physician

2. Lack of flu vaccine severe Officials: There's not enough for high-risk patients
...flu vaccine for all of their high-risk patients. Those conclusions indicated...supplies are so limited, not all high-risk patients will be able to get vaccine...to inoculate the clinic's own high-risk patients, Fishering said. BroMenn Medical...
October 7, 2004; The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL

3. Are stents the best treatment for extracranial carotid artery disease in high-risk patients?(POINT/COUNTERPOINT)
Stents are best in high-risk patients. Carotid stenting is the best...other than stroke and death in high-risk patients. In NASCET, there was a 9% combined...remains unproven in the types of high-risk patients Dr. Gray mentioned. As for whether...
November 15, 2006; Internal Medicine News

4. U-turn on drug for high-risk patients
...Relenza is to be handed out to high-risk patients in Scotland on the National...Relenza will be made available to high risk patients such as adults aged 65 and over...the dispensing of Relenza to high risk patients without needing to have a face-to-...
November 21, 2000; Evening News - Scotland

5. Abbott Announces 30-Day Results of Clinical Trial for Carotid Artery Stent And Filter System; - Trial Studied Minimally Invasive Treatment Option for Carotid Artery Disease In High-Risk Patients -.
...SECuRITY trial, a registry of high-risk patients utilizing the MedNova EmboShield...registry that reported on 305 high-risk patients at 30 sites. Patients were treated...and is not easily tolerated by high-risk patients, a group that comprises 15 to...
September 19, 2003; PR Newswire

6. High-risk patients may need second flu shot
WASHINGTON Some high-risk patients - particularly those with chronic heart or lung diseases - may...said Tuesday. Nobody knows whether the 1.5 million to 2 million high-risk patients thought to have received the less potent vaccine are at greater...
December 18, 1996; Chicago Sun-Times

7. Statins help high-risk patients
Medical Briefing Statins help high-risk patients, study finds Compiled by Kawanza L. Griffin, medical...About a third of all heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patients can be prevented by giving the patients cholesterol...
November 19, 2001; The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

8. New IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines Recommend NOXAFIL(R) (Posaconazole) for Antifungal Prophylaxis in Certain High-Risk Patients.
...Aspergillus infections in certain high- risk patients in the latest Treatment of Aspergillosis...antifungal prophylaxis in certain high-risk patients. The IDSA and NCCN recommendations...invasive Aspergillus infections in high-risk patients, said John Perfect, ...
January 31, 2008; PR Newswire

9. It ain't necessarily so. (overview on surgery discrimination against high-risk patients)
...hospitals and doctors to turn away high-risk patients to improve their performance...bias: The mortality rate for high-risk patients was actually slightly lower...reason to avoid operating on high-risk patients than they have to avoid operating...
August 1, 1997; Newsletter-People's Medical Society

10. With flu vaccine in short supply, public health officials urge doctors to save shots for high-risk patients.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
...to save what's available for high-risk patients _ mainly the elderly and chronically...deaths each year. The idea is for high-risk patients to get their shots fast and...have to wait their turn. If high-risk patients get early shots, they won't...
October 25, 2000; Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service