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Taking into consideration the limitations of this study, it is time to for sliding-scale insulin to join bloodletting and trepanation in the Museum of Medical Anachronisms.
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While the numbers of cases of West Nile virus infection in the United States were relatively small from 1999 through 2001, in 2002 an epidemiologic explosion occurred with 4156 cases, including 284 deaths, in 44 states plus the District of Columbia.
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The FDA has approved the first nasally administered flu vaccine. This cold-adapted, temperature sensitive, attenuated, trivalent vaccine is manufactured by MedImmune Vaccine, Inc. and marketed by MedImmune and Wyeth under the name FluMist. The nasal flu vaccine should be available this fall.
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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was halted 1 year ago, but fallout
from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify
the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in
healthy postmenopausal women.
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As experienced physicians understand, heart failure can be a difficult diagnosis to establish in the emergency department setting, especially when there are factors that may complicate a patients presentation. This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports reviews the role and clinical utility of brain natriuretic peptide in the management of patients suspected of having heart failure upon presentation to the ED
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Avierinos and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic have used the Olmstead County, Minn, Data Base to study the association between mitral valve prolapse and ischemic neurological events.
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm is a disorder that is without apparent cause and is generally impossible to predict. This study suggests that there are a number of SAH risk factors related to lifestyle that are, in fact, modifiable.
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Sabsevitz and associates report a correlation between Functional MRI results and language dysfunction following anterior temporal lobectomy in the treatment of medically refractory epilepsy.
