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Over 63,000 healthy infants from 11 latin american countries and Finland were randomized to receive either 2 oral doses of a live, attenuated human rotavirus vaccine or placebo at 2 and 4 months of age.
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Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic which was initially approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of complicated skin and skin-skin structure infections in September 2003.
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The introduction of therapy animals and pets in the health care setting has created unique opportunities and challenges for infection control personnelproblems that DiSalvo and colleagues point out can be blurred by confusion between various animal programs.
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Air Travel and DVT Risk: Is Hypobaric Hypoxia the Culprit?; GERD: Size Matters; Does aTNFa for RA Increase Infections and Malignancies?; Postexposure Treatment with Doxycycline and Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever; Secondary Prevention of Stroke: Persistence Pays Off; That Darned Cold Sore: What a Difference a Day Makes!
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Until now, neurologists have relied on large studies of patients with coronary atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia who were treated with statins and were found, as a secondary outcome, to have a reduced risk of ischemic stroke.
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Patients with myopathies induced by lipid-lowering drugs, including statins and fibrates, have an increased rate of genetic muscle disorders.
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Cluster headache may be accompanied by a variety of neurological manifestations, and responds well to triptans and oxygen therapy.
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Ginkgo biloba has been used by practitioners of Eastern medicine for centuries to boost memory and other health purposes.
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Treatment of Parkinson's disease with dopamine agonist medications may precipitate impulse-control disorders such as compulsive gambling, buying, and hypersexuality
