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Depression and pregnancy, new vaccine recommendations from the CDC, cortico-steroids and/or antivirals for Bell's palsy, rasagiline and Parkinson's disease, and FDA Actions.
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In patients with obstructive sleep apnea who are treated with CPAP, those who report persistent sleepiness are more likely to have history of depression, diabetes, and heart disease, and to have been sleepier prior to treatment.
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One-third of adults older than age 40 has vestibular dysfunction.
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Hand hygiene and facemasks used within 36 hours of patient symptom onset resulted in a small reduction of household transmission of influenza, but adherence to recommended practices was poor despite home-based education.
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Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a protein that might seem to be most interesting to the endocrinologist, since its sole function - until very recently - has been thought to be regulation of the availability of gonadal steroids.
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Well-characterized strains of Staphylococcus aureus were grown in broth culture and after lysis PCR primers amplifying the lukS-PV and lukF-PV genes were employed. The amplicon was inserted into a pGEX vector and was transfected into E. coli.
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The diagnosis of C. difficile-related disease (CDD) in children is controversial, as recently reviewed.
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In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 140 patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria were randomized to rosiglitazone 4 mg BID for four days vs. placebo, in addition to atovaquone/proguanil.