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This observational cohort study found that reduced ICU bed availability is associated with increased rates of ICU readmission as well as ward cardiac arrest if medical ICU beds were on shortage.
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A series of biosafety breaches in federal labs working with highly pathogenic agents has created a rift in the research community, with some calling for a moratorium until safety can be assured and other scientists arguing that this important work should continue with appropriate precautions to prepare for pandemics and bioterror attacks.
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The ongoing record outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa is killing six out of every ten people infected. And that, grimly enough, is the good news.
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As the first two cases of Ebola ever treated in the U.S. were recently admitted to a special containment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, clinicians and public health officials continued to reassure a jittery public that infection control measures would prevent transmission and contain the virus.
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The most shocking of the recent laboratory mishaps and biosafety breaches was the discovery of a long-forgotten cache of live smallpox in a lab storage area at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
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Federal public health officials recently contacted clinicians at the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in Omaha to determine if the facility could house Ebola patients if needed as the record outbreak in Western Africa continues.
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A recent study has shown a link between abnormal uterine artery waveforms in the second trimester and reduced fetal movements later in pregnancy, as well as with stillbirth and small for gestational age.
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Olaparib, a poly (ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, demonstrated substantial delay until progression when administered to women as a maintenance therapy with BRCA-mutant recurrent ovarian cancer.
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Serum anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) has been well-established as an accurate marker of ovarian reserve. It is solely produced in the human ovary by the granulosa cells.
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A review of the published literature finds no value to the routine screening pelvic examination in asymptomatic non-pregnant women.