Warfarin is one of the most widely used drugs in the world for a variety of indications involving the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic phenomena. Even after 60 years of its use, warfarin's ...

The biguanide metformin (dimethylbiguanide) was initially introduced for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the late 1950s. Today, this drug is considered to be the first-choice agent and ...

9 Akershus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lørenskog, Norway Objective To establish expert consensus on prescreening and contraindications to moderate-to-vigorous ...

Knee replacement surgery is performed in patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis or other arthritis that causes severe pain and limit mobility. Knee replacement surgery is performed to improve ...

Appropriate drug prescribing is an ongoing challenge and may at times generate controversy. Whether we have adequate and reliable data to alter our prescribing of the antihyperglycemic agent metformin ...

Many patients with atrial fibrillation are not taking oral anticoagulation because of an elevated bleeding risk, and this subset faces substantial risks of both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In reality, there is no absolute contraindication for the direct anterior approach. I use the direct anterior ...

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) this week recommended new contraindications on the coadministration of the protease inhibitor ...