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In a sample of patients from primary care practice, a single screening question accurately identified drug use.
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Replacing saturated fatty acids with carbohydrates with low glycemic index values is associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.
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More than three-fourths of men have some degree of male pattern hair loss by age 70. The unwanted hair loss seen in male pattern hair loss is stimulated by dihydrotestosterone.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old woman with "skipped beats." Is there anything unusual about these ectopic beats and the effect that they have on the normal beats in this tracing? What happens at the onset of the last lead change (i.e., at the onset where we see leads V4,V5,V6)?
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A nationwide survey conducted in March 2008 of 429 pediatricians and 419 family physicians in the United States with response rates of 81% and 79%, respectively, showed that 98% of pediatricians and 80% of family physicians were administering HPV vaccine in their offices.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.
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Investigators in lausanne, switzerland cultured the noses of 405 new hospital workers for Staphylococcus aureus, then checked them again about nine months later.
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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
