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Determining the ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease to give consent for participation in research can present challenges to researchers and IRBs.
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It could be argued that successful clinical trials depend on a variety of factors. But perhaps the glue that holds it all together is the study coordinator.
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From a bioethical perspective, payments to research participants are complicated, an expert says.
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Although Enzyme-Immunoassay (EIA) tests have replaced cytotoxin assays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in most US laboratories, the changing epidemiology of this disease suggests that an adjustment in diagnostic testing algorithms is needed.
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A retrospective review of 211 inpatients admitted to the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort in early 2003 revealed 57 patients with A. baumannii infection.
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Central nervous system infection due to free-living amebae generally manifests as either acute meningitis or focal encephalitis.
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The inevitability of progression of bacterial resistance to antibiotics used in the clinic and other settings dictates the need for approaches that go beyond antimicrobial stewardship and the development of new antibiotics.
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Abide et al at the university of mississippi report three patients who presented with skin lesions and were found to have leprosy.
