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Attenuated CV Benefits of Clopidogrel in Diabetes; Is A1c Always the Best Game in Town to Monitor Type 2 Diabetes?
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Results of this year-long intervention trial suggest that an ethanolic extract of curcumin could, together with appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes, play a role in slowing the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes.
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This paper updates the American Headache Society and American Academy of Neurology guidelines for prevention of episodic migraine that were previously published in 2000.
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Several commonly used photosensitizing antihypertensive drugs can confer as much as a four-fold increase in the risk of lip cancer when prescribed long-term in non-Hispanic whites.
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The FDA has approved a second oral drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Teriflunomide, a metabolite of leflunomide and a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor, is an immunomodulatory agent. It is marketed by Sanofi Aventis as Aubagio.
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In November 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented data on emergency hospitalizations because of adverse drug reactions. The report showed that insulin and oral hypoglycemic agents caused nearly 25% of the medication-induced hospitalizations in older adults in the United States.
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This paper reports on the findings of a systematic literature review on noise and noise-reduction strategies in the intensive care unit (ICU).
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Arnold and colleagues at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis performed a 6-year retrospective cohort study of patients with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) documented ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), diagnosed by accepted clinical and quantitative culture criteria, that was caused by either Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) and Acinetobacter baumannii(AB).
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The intensive care unit (ICU) can be immensely stressful for caregivers and can lead to burnout that results from chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors in the environment.
