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The FDA has approved the first of a new class of antibiotics for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections. Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide that is active against Gram-positive bacteria.
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The new criterion for FPG will identify many more individuals who are at risk for developing diabetes.
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Like patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and total knee replacements, EM of hospitalized patients with CAP reduces overall hospital length of stay and institutional resources without increasing the risk of adverse outcomes.
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More than 90% of individuals studied maintain measurable humoral or T-cell-mediated immunity against vaccinia virus for as long as 75 years after smallpox vaccination.
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Sleepiness, obesity, hypertension, witnessed apneas, and frequent snoring are prevalent in the general population; demand for diagnostic and treatment services for sleep apnea is likely to skyrocket.
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Blood pressure reduction in the first 24 hours of stroke onset is independently associated with poor outcome after 3 months.
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In this study, fecal incontinence therapies, including standard care (advice), sphincter exercises, and computer-assisted biofeedback, all led to substantial improvements in continence, quality of life, psychological well being, and sphincter function with no evidence of superiority for biofeedback.
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The ECG and rhythm strip in the Figure were obtained from an elderly woman admitted for an acute stroke. Her neurologic deficit was not progressing, and she was clinically stable at the time of admission to the hospital. No history of smoking. The computer interpreted her rhythm as atrial fibrillation. Do you agree? Should the patient be anticoagulated?
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TZDs and HF in People with Type 2 Diabetes; Exercise Plus Behavioral Management in Patients with AD; Spironolactone in Resistant HBP
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A second biological agent has been approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.