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Emergency departments tend to be noisy, bright, and intensely focused on patient throughput.
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It's a problem that every ED grapples with: A patient comes in complaining of chronic pain and you give him or her a one-time prescription for a powerful narcotic with instructions to seek comprehensive treatment from a primary care provider (PCP).
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While no one has precise numbers, the practice of human trafficking is hardly limited to third-world countries. In fact, experts maintain it is big business in the United States, with somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 people trafficked into the country each year.
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The number of adult ED visits for eye-related complaints is largely limited to data on eye injuries.
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A new study points out the risk of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use in patients who have had a myocardial infarction (MI) suggesting that even brief use increases the risk for death and recurrent MI.
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The FDA has approved linagliptin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults.
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The FDA has approved two new drugs for the treatment of hepatitis C the first new drugs to be approved in years.
