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American women might have another option in emergency contraception (EC) if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) follows the recommendation of its reproductive health panel in approving ulipristal acetate (UPA).
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Morbidities and mortalities among adolescents often are the result of risk-taking behaviors. By tracking behavioral trends, clinicians can provide more tailored education, counseling, and screenings to adolescents.
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A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all children age birth to five years enrolled at a Department of Defense treatment facility between January 1998 and December 2005, who were diagnosed with bacterial enteritis.
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the association between antibacterial medications and selected birth defects. The authors conducted a population-based, multisite, case-control study of women who had pregnancies affected by 1 of more than 30 eligible major birth defects identified via birth defect surveillance programs.
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A critically ill patient, who was a heroin user, was admitted to a hospital in Scotland in December 2009 and was found to be infected with Bacillus anthracis.
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In this issue: Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
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You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed.
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