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If your clinical practice includes treatment of perimenopausal women, the subject of hot flashes is familiar territory for you. In a 2002 national survey of menopausal women, hot flashes (70%) led the top four reasons for seeking medical attention, followed by night sweats (68%), mood disturbances (50%), and sleep disturbances (49%).
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As a women's health care provider, you are familiar with interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome (PBS). It is estimated that at least 1 million Americans suffer from IC/PBS, most of them women.
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Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism by Multidetector CT; The Impact of Medicare Part B on Medication Nonadherence Among Seniors; Liberty, Justice, and Hypertension Treatment for ALL; The Carotids Blow the Whistle on Crimes in the Heart; Vitamin Shmitamin; Fracture Risk, Diabetes, and Rosiglitazone
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Mummies are fascinating. they represent a special snapshot of our human past when contemporaries respected our human forms enough to try to preserve them indefinitely.
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Threats to laboratory workers come in many varieties, ranging from earthquakes to fires. But one threat that has acquired enhanced visibility in this age of bioterrorism is the threat of a laboratory-acquired infection.
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Pneumococcal meningitis remains a deadly disease, with a case fatality rate among adults that is still above 20%, with also permanent neurological sequelae in a substantial minority of survivors.
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In the health care setting, transmission of varicella zoster virus (VZV) from dermatomal herpes zoster lesions is generally felt to be insignificant, as long as the lesions are kept covered.
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Exactly 1397 antiretroviral (ARV) naïve patients initiating ARVs, as part of a CPCRA-sponsored clinical trial (FIRST trial), were followed for a median of five years.
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The utility of surveillance screening for MRSA on hospital admission remains controversial. Three recently published clinical trials attempt to assess the role of MRSA surveillance.
