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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Introduction. Three hundred delegates from around the world attended the First World Congress on Men's Health Conference speakers addressed a wide range of issues, including the state of men's health ...

Introduction . Malassezia are common lipiddependent fungi that grow on the sebaceous areas of human skin, including the face, scalp, and upper trunk. Although Malassezia are a part of the normal human ...

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 ...