-
Combined oral contraceptives (OCs) help decrease a womans risk for epithelial ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer, reduce her risk of pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy, and lessen menstrual cramps and pain. But what is their impact on bone mineral density (BMD)?
-
Your practice includes confidential care for adolescents, including provision of contraceptives and testing/treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). But are your office staff communicating the confidentiality of this information correctly to prospective teen patients? If they are not, adolescents may fail to access these important services.
-
KS Fails to Respond to Cidofovir; Acyclovir & Renal Dysfunction; Broad-Range Bacterial PCR in Meningitis; Why is BCG Less Virulent than MTb?.
-
Despite many years of practice, a recent questionnaire about therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin revealed marked variability and a lack of consensus regarding postdose assay sampling times, target ranges, and what constituted a toxic level.
-
Noroviruses are a frequent cause of acute gastroenteritis. During the last 2 months of 2002 in a single health district in Washington state, 10 outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis attributable to norovirus were investigated. These events affected 354 patients in 6 long-term care facilities, a community hospital, an outpatient clinic, and the county jail.
-
-
Indices have been developed to help assess the risk of neutropenic patients developing Gram-positive infections when they become febrile that might allow strategies to be developed for managing these infections.
-
The study established a policy of routine susceptibility testing of linezolid and quinupristin/dalfopristin isolates of VRE from any sterile site.
-
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse ReactionsGuidance for Clinicians in the Jan. 24th edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The guidance is a thorough review of the smallpox vaccine with a well-illustrated compendium of complications.
-
Ramalanjaona G. Olive leaf extract for hypertension. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(3):33-35.