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Neuropathic pain, specifically allodynia following peripheral nerve injury, is a poorly understood phenomenon that challenges clinicians and patients. Tsuda and associates report on animal data that may reveal insights into the underlying mechanism of tactile allodynia.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a clinical diagnosis made with a high degree of accuracy (> 90%) by physicians familiar with the disease. No test is diagnostic for ALS.
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Practice Parameter for Guillain Barré Syndrome; Symposium on Dementia
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The FDA has approved Pfizer's eplerenone (Inspra) for the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients who have sustained a myocardial infarction.
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Some of the key aspects of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2005 infection control standards are summarized here:
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides the following answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA).
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Infection control is one of the key areas cited in a recent national report warning that nursing staffing problems pose a grave threat to patient safety.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has issued new infection control standards for 2005, emphasizing at a conference in Chicago that hospital executives not ICPs are going to have to take ultimate responsibility for enacting them.
