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Thomson American Health Consultants is offering an audio conference with the information necessary to help you recognize the ethical and regulatory issues related to working with children in clinical trials.
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Experts say these are the top 10 strategies for reducing slips, trips, falls, and the associated liability.
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Slips, trips, and falls happen in any health care setting, and they can be enormously expensive. The good news is that you can sharply reduce those accidents by aggressively employing some rather simple strategies.
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This case highlights the problems that can stem from traumatic lacerations, a common childhood injury.
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The possible association of migraine and stroke remains an active area of controversy in clinical neurology. Since migraines predominantly affect young people and the medications used can cause vasoconstriction, assessing the full vascular risk profile of migraine is important from a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view. To date, the literature is incomplete.
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Merkel cell carcinoma is a tumor of the skin that is well known for its metastatic potential. Because of its scarcity, no trials have been reported. Poulsen and colleagues from Australia conducted a unique multi-institutional Phase II prospective trial of concomitant chemoradiation for patients with high-risk disease and concluded that their regimen resulted in disease control and survival rates that are better than those reported in the literature.
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Munger and colleagues reviewed a database of 187,563 women enrolled in the Nurses Health Study, which longitudinally surveyed participants aged 25-55. There were 173 women with probable or definite multiple sclerosis (MS). Vitamin D intake was determined through the study questionnaire and 4 1-week diet records.