It's upper respiratory infection (URI) season. The following is a clinical scenario drawn from my own practice. I'll tell you what I plan to do, but I'm most interested in crowdsourcing a response ...

A man dies of septic shock due to a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infection (BSI) only days after being admitted to your local hospital for a myocardial infarction.An ...

Better Nurse Staffing and Higher Education Levels Increase Outcomes of Patients With Serious Mental Illness. The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is part of the National Institutes of ...

The estimated lifetime risk of developing diabetes for an American born in 2000 is at least 40% for black persons and more than 50% for Hispanic women. [] With such a high prevalence, an increasing ...

A Happy Toddler With a Rash. Vega: Our first case is an almost 1-year-old girl with intermittent fever to a temperature of 39.2°C for 4 days, responsive to antipyretics. Her only other symptom is ...

Failure of postnatal closure of the ductus arteriosus (DA) remains a common complication of very preterm birth. About a third of infants born before 30 weeks gestation will develop clinical signs of a ...

Advances in treatment and technology capabilities, coupled with the ability to care for younger, smaller, and sicker neonates contribute to ethical conflicts in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) ...

Treating MRSA Skin and Soft Tissue Infections . Early this year, the Infectious Diseases Society of America published its first-ever recommendations for the treatment of infections caused by ...

Précis . We describe three patients who had positive patch-test reactions to retapamulin ointment. To date, reports of contact allergy to this antibiotic are lacking.

3 Novels You Must Read (For Fun) Before Graduating Medical School Reading for fun isn’t often on the top of our to-do lists as medical students. But with more free time, I’ve found a few medical ...

AHA 2022 The AHA Presidential Address That Could Change Medicine A cardiologist writes an open letter of gratitude to Dr Michelle A. Albert, the first Black woman to serve as president of the American ...

Strictly defined, a biologic is a treatment derived from an organic source. In this sense, vaccines for smallpox and rabies and antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, which were introduced in the 19th ...