Prescribing statins for patients with ACS? No need to wait

PRACTICE CHANGER: Prescribe a high-dose statin before any patient with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoes percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); it may be reasonable to extend this to patients being evaluated for ACS.

Is your patient still using rosiglitazone?

Many doctors stopped prescribing rosiglitazone in 2007, when a study linked it to an elevated MI risk. An update to that study underscores the need to switch patients still taking it to another drug