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Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

MONOGRAPH: The faster definitive stroke treatment is administered, the better the outcomes. Unfortunately, most patients arrive too late.

2016 USPSTF Update: Harms and Supplemental Screening

The decision to undergo screening mammography requires a consideration of benefits and harms. Harms include false-positive exams leading to unnecessary interventions, and true-positive exams that lead to overdiagnosis.

Pelvic Floor Changes After Delivery

Significant changes in levator muscles are visible by transperineal ultrasound in early and late postpartum period.

Who Seeks an Infertility Evaluation?

Demographic and lifestyle factors influence who receives a fertility evaluation.

Zika Virus: Effects on the Fetus

While the Zika virus has been indolent in many South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries, its recent association with microcephaly (and neurologic impairment) has created an outburst of media alerts, response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and travel recommendations, particularly as the world moves closer to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.

Clinical Briefs

In this section: a better way to measure blood pressure; the magical powers of grapefruit juice; and yet another reason to stop smoking.

Coagulation Factor IX (Recombinant), Albumin Fusion Protein

This product is indicated for on-demand control and prevention of bleeding episodes, perioperative management of bleeding, or routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in children and adults with hemophilia B (congenital factor IX deficiency).

Prescient Warning Symptoms: A New Target for Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention

Typical cardiac symptoms frequently precede sudden cardiac arrest and are frequently unheeded, but when acted on are associated with decreased mortality.

Eat Less Sugar: The New National Dietary Guidelines

A strict adherence to a lower sugar intake may improve the incidences of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but the guidelines could have, and should have, gone much further to apply the latest research to promoting dietary change in the United States.

Acupuncture for Acute Low Back Pain in the Emergency Department

Use of acupuncture significantly reduced pain in study patients.