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Does prednisone, administered early in the course of ocular myasthenia, affect its progression to generalized disease?
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The National Cholesterol Education Program, a product of a collaboration of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association, has updated its clinical practice guideline on cholesterol management.
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Methylprednisolone significantly improves the recovery of peripheral vestibular function in patients with vestibular neuritis, whereas valacyclovir does not.
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Absence of evidence-based medicine is both humbling, as well as a reminder of how substantial a role the art and oral tradition of medicine plays in the care of neurologic patients.
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These studies provide additional data about the higher risk of relapse, and the greater potential for progression of disability following childbirth.
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It seems prudent to strongly consider use of melatonin in our cognitively delayed patients with disordered sleep, but to monitor those with epilepsy very closely for exacerbation, and withdraw the drug.
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The hundreds of presentations at this meeting provided encouraging evidence that existing Alzheimers therapies may have greater benefits than first realized, and that a new generation of potential disease-modifying therapies for AD may be on the way.
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The means by which prions cause neuropathologic damage remains to be established.
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The MATCH data provide quite strong evidence that the clopidogrel-aspirin combination is a less favorable option than previously thought, but its use may not be completely contraindicated.