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A randomized study of treatment of septic arthritis in children 3 months to 15 years of age demonstrated that 10 days of treatment, with an initial 2-4 days intravenously followed by oral therapy, was sufficient for most cases, regardless of the infecting pathogen or site of infection.
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Adenovirus 14 (Ad14) has emerged as a cause of febrile respiratory illness (FRI) and has resulted in pneumonia in a significant number of patients.
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The combination of aspirin with clopidogrel is better than aspirin alone in reducing the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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The differential diagnosis of acute chest pain includes three entities that can be lethal if missed: myocardial infarction (MI), pulmonary embolus, and aortic dissection.
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Physicians may be operating in burnout mode, or suffering from other maladies related to distress and stress, long before they are even aware of it, according to Michael K. Kearney, MD, one of the authors of a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled "Self-care of physicians caring for patient at the end of life: "being connected ... a key to my survival."
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Health reform legislation introduced by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) strengthens the quality and availability of counseling, support services, and care management for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
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Although palliative sedation is used in hospitals to control intractable pain, there is little literature describing its use in a home setting for hospice patients.
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Caring Voices is a web site set up to promote communication among cancer survivors and cancer patients and also between patients and providers.
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Hospice medical directors still are finding shortages of certain opioid medications three months after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified manufacturers of certain types of opioid medications that they would no longer be able to manufacture the drugs.
