In this issue: Drug shortages; metformin and cancer prevention; migraine prevention guidelines; and FDA actions.
Endoscopic hysterectomy and staging has proved to be equivalent to open laparotomy in reference to survival for selected women with endometrial cancer. Increasingly, endoscopic procedures are being performed with robotic assistance under the claim of improved safety and efficacy.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are frequently encountered in clinical medicine. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 2.8 million infections with Chlamydia trachomatis1 and 700,000 infections with Neisseria gonorrhea2 occur annually in the United States. Viral sexually transmitted diseases are frequently incurable, so prevalence data are a better measure of the overall burden of disease.
In this issue: Drug shortages; metformin and cancer prevention; migraine prevention guidelines; and FDA actions.
This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of a formal audit and feedback program targeted at broad-spectrum antibiotic use in critically ill patients.
Investigators at the University of Iowa hospital collected culture samples from vinyl privacy curtains at 30 inpatient locations, half of them in the medical and surgical ICUs. Curtains at each location were sampled twice weekly.
