The FDA and Boston Scientific announced a class 1 recall of the NexStent Monorail, NexStent carotid stent, and Monorail delivery system, distributed between June 2007 and May 2008, because the tip of the stent-delivery system may detach. Medscape Medical News
Summaries focus on sleep apnea in kids, nursing education, military nurses, pulmonary thromboembolism in the elderly, and physician/NP perceptions. Medscape Nurses
A quantitative analysis identified particular concerns regarding safety of off-label use of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs. Medscape Medical News
Authors of a Perspective to be published next month say general cardiologists and their patients heard all the bad news about drug-eluting stents but are ill-informed about newer data pointing to reduced death/MI. Heartwire
A study shows that age-related macular degeneration predicts stroke and cardiovascular events in the long-term in persons aged 49 to 75 years. Medscape Medical News
Nonanesthesiologists are administering and monitoring moderate sedation more often for interventional procedures. The resulting implications and sedatives indicated for moderate sedation are reviewed. Medscape Gastroenterology
