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Lipid abnormalities can be problematic in HIV-positive patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) due to the risk of premature coronary artery disease developing in susceptible patients.
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Increasingly, hospitals are being required to make public their surveillance data on hospital-related infections as quality indicators.
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In this issue: FDA warnings for existing drugs dominate pharmaceutical news this month.
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Patients with epilepsy are unaware of most of their seizures. Video-EEG is the most reliable method to accurately determine seizure frequency.
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Patients with acute low back pain receiving acetaminophen and standard advice do not benefit from the addition of NSAIDs or spinal manipulative therapy.
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It is well accepted that subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation is effective in improving motor function in Parkinson's disease. However, the effect of DBS (deep brain stimulation) on non-motor symptoms still needs to be further studied.
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RCVS occurs in a variety of clinical settings, and should be considered and investigated in any person with sudden severe headache that is unexplained by other disorders.
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In an adult population older than age 45, brain MRI reveled that 1.8% had asymptomatic aneurysms, 1.6% had benign tumors, and 7.2% had silent brain infarcts.
