Segers and colleagues of the University of Amsterdam conducted this randomized, double-blind clinical trial at a 480-bed community hospital that performs 1200 cardiac surgical procedures annually.
Patients with transient ischemic attacks should usually be admitted to the hospital and receive rapid evaluation and treatment.
West nile virus (WNV) infection is a growing epidemic that impacts more persons and more aspects of our health care system yearly.
Osteoporosis is defined as a skeletal disorder characterized by a decline in bone strength leading to enhanced risk of fracture.
Several important papers have been published in the last 2 months, none more important than the realization that breast cancer rates have dropped precipitously since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002.
The continuing emergence of a highly toxigenic strain of Clostridium difficile in the community has raised a troubling question for public health investigators: Is C. diff becoming a foodborne pathogen?
