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Hollywood movies have always created their own reality. Meanwhile, the rest of us slog through the conventional reality of our daily lives.
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In early October, 12 inmates from the Utah State Correctional Facility became acutely ill with nausea, vomiting, facial paralysis, and visual blurring.
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A 1-month prevalence study was done in 2009 at 25 of the 56 contributing hospitals participating in the Chicago Health Alert Network.
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In this issue: Medication poisonings in children; rosuvastatin vs atorvastatin for atherosclerosis; saw palmetto for prostate symptoms; using atypical antipsychotics for off-label indications in adults; and FDA actions.
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While a number of antiretroviral agents have been implicated in contributing to both insulin resistance and lipid abnormalities, HIV also directly causes metabolic disturbances.
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A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial conducted by the International Neonatal Immunotherapy Study (INIS) compared adjunctive therapy of human nonspecific polyvalent IgG intravenous immune globulin to placebo in the treatment of newborn infants with suspected or proven sepsis who were also receiving antibiotic therapy.
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Baseline production of PSMa subtypes was examined in 50 PVL-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and MRSA clinical isolates using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS), and these results were compared to a control strain, LAC (USA300). MICs were determined using a broth macrodilution method.
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Outpatients with a diagnosis of either dentoalveolar or periodontal abscess or a diagnosis of gingival inflammatory infiltrates were randomized to receive either moxifloxacin 400 mg daily or clindamycin 300 mg QID, both for 5 days, in a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-dummy clinical trial design.
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A total of 783 children 6-24 months of age were followed for an entire respiratory season by four experienced otoscopists using pneumatic otoscopy of one ear, randomly selected for each child.
