Antibiotic Resistance, Surgery, & Chemotherapy
The CDC estimates that at least 2 million people become infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria...
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Hospital Medicine
Benzodiazepine Prescribing in Older Adults
Benzodiazepines can effectively treat anxiety, agitation, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal, but...
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Enhancing ED Care for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
According to current estimates, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) affects as many as 10% of...
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Improving ED Care for LGBT Patients
As the patient census has become increasingly diverse, it has become more challenging for EDs to...
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Perioperative Drug Errors & ADEs
While much attention has been given to errors in various areas of medicine, few studies have...
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Guidance for Managing ACL Injuries
According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), about 252,000 people in the...
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A Guide for Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases in...
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Deadly, drug-resistant yeast infection spreading around the world
The C. auris yeast causes bloodstream infections, wound infections, and otitis (ear infections)....
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New research identifies flaws in LM-method for Lyme disease
A new microscopy technique (LM-method) developed to detect Lyme disease is unable to distinguish...
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Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be detrimental
An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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Childhood antibiotic treatments reduce diversity and stability of intestinal microbiota
The DIABIMMUNE project followed the development of 39 Finnish infants from birth to the age of...
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Antibiotic treatment reduces stability, diversity of microbial population in the first 3 years of life
Impact of antibiotic treatment on infant gut microbiome revealed. Scientists have developed a...
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Decisions made in Orlando: Is there any law more misunderstood than HIPAA?
On the morning of the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, a tweet by CNN stated, “The White House...
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Conference Highlights: AHS 2016
Gender Differences in Migraine Prior research has indicated that migraine is more common in women...
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Experimental antibiotic treats deadly MRSA infection
A new experimental antibiotic successfully treats the deadly MRSA infection and restores the...
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Conference Highlights: ADA 2016
CV Events & Mortality in Diabetes Few large studies have assessed the impact of cardiovascular...
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New material kills E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds
Researchers have developed a new material that can kill the E. coli bacteria within 30 seconds....
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Use of glucocorticoids is associated with increased risk of serious bacterial blood infection
The risk of life-threatening blood infections by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is more than...
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Test holds potential to diagnose myriad conditions with drop of blood
This is the first evidence that it’s possible to develop blood tests for any infectious...
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Conference Highlights: ASCO 2016
An App to Improve Lung Cancer Survival Comparisons of standard follow-up to web-mediated follow-up...
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