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Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
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Obesity is gaining ground in the United States. Are you prepared to offer women effective options? James Trussell, PhD, professor of economics and public affairs and director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton (NJ) University, reviewed current research at the 2007 Contraceptive Technology conferences to help clinicians select appropriate options.
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When it comes to initiating oral contraceptives (OCs), new research indicates that immediate initiation before start of the next menses improves short-term continuation of pill use.
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Results from past research studies have investigated a possible relationship between hormonal contraceptive use and HIV acquisition, but understanding remained poor due to inconsistent results and shortfalls in study design.
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Eye trauma is a common chief complaint among emergency department (ED) pediatric patients.
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The next patient in your exam room is a 23-year-old woman who is experiencing her third episode of symptomatic bacterial vaginosis (BV) in six months. Which of the following strategies would you recommend?
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Patients with high-risk neurosarcoidosis who receive combination therapy with corticosteroids and additional immunosuppressive agents seem to have favorable outcomes.
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A meta-analysis of 18 studies that have examined the usefulness of procalcitonin measurement in the diagnosis of sepsis finds that the diagnostic performance of this measurement is low and that the test cannot reliably distinguish sepsis from other causes of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
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The new guidelines recommend antibiotic prophylaxis of infective endocarditis in a much more restricted group of patients than did previous guidelines.
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In a pilot study, ten women with liver predominant metastatic breast cancer were treated with intra-hepatic arterial infusion of paclitaxel (200 mg/m2 over 24 hours, monthly).