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Conjugated equine estrogen alone and CEE + MPA increased the risk of urinary incontinence among continent women and worsened the characteristics of urinary incontinence among symptomatic women after 1 year.
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Amgen has received approval to market palifermin. The drug is approved to decrease the incidence and duration of severe oral mucositis in patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy, with or without radiation, followed by a bone marrow transplant.
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Although all strokes are potentially debilitating, intracerebral hemorrhage is often the most disabling.
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The non-continuous lead II rhythm strips shown in the Figure were obtained from an asymptomatic 76-year-old woman. Are these rhythms diagnostic (or at least consistent) with sick sinus syndrome? Is permanent pacemaker implantation indicated? On what does your answer depend?
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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On February 11, 2005 the New York City Department of Health sent out a Dear Colleague letter reporting the case of a homosexual man who sustained primary infection with a 3-drug-class-resistant HIV-1 accompanied by rapid CD4+ T cell depletion and progression to AIDS.
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A multicenter study of 4 non-invasive tests for Helicobacter pylori infection in children and adolescents showed the urea breath test to be the preferred diagnostic test, with the greatest sensitivity among all age groups.
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The potential for a clinically detrimental interaction between didanosine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DF) has received considerable attention lately in the medical community. Tenofovir DF is a nucleotide analog of adenosine 5-monophosphate, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in October 2001. Didanosine, 1 of 7 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) marketed in the United States, has been implicated as the causative agent significant adverse events such as lactic acidosis/hepatic steatosis, pancreatitis, and peripheral neuropathy.
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HHV6 infection occurred primarily during the first 2 years of life. Most infections were symptomatic, but with nonspecific symptoms. Among 81 children with well-defined time of infection, roseola occurred in only 23%. None of these children had febrile seizures.
