While more hospitals have implemented skin-to-skin care after vaginal births, very few have extended this practice to the operating room (OR) after cesarean births. Yet, stable mothers and babies ...

Background Morgellons disease (MD) is a complex skin disorder characterized by ulcerating lesions that have protruding or embedded filaments. Many clinicians refer to this condition as delusional ...

Another earlier memantine trial – the Benefit and Efficacy in Severely Demented patients during Treatment with Memantine (M-Best or 9403) study – enrolled participants with moderately severe ...

The Medscape Journal of Medicine continues publication of MedGenMed beginning in January 2008. MedGenMed: Medscape General Medicine was the original open-access peer-reviewed general medical ...

Bisphosphonates are the mainstay of osteoporosis therapy. Extensive clinical evaluation supports their utility in stemming progression of the disease and in reducing fracture risk. In the course ...

Recently, we learned that an oxygen flow meter had been forced into a nitrous oxide wall outlet that was directly adjacent to an oxygen outlet in a radiology suite. The oxygen flow meter's index ...

The activity and sterility of reconstituted alteplase solution and the effectiveness of an alteplase dose-escalation protocol for the clearance of midlinecatheter and central-venous-access device ...

The terms "intestinal barrier" and "intestinal permeability" describe two different aspects of the same anatomical structure, the intestinal wall composed of four layers, the mucosa, the submucosa ...

In adults the joint pain and fatigue associated with hypermobility-type EDS can be misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, hypochondriasis, or depression. [25] Vascular-type EDS may also be ...

Although HPVs do express some unspliced mRNAs (Figure 2), most HPV mRNAs are the products of constitutive and alternative splicing. Constitutive splicing is where every intron in the primary RNA ...

Anne Michelle Manzo is an epidemiologist with almost a decade of experience in pharmaceutical medical, marketing, and scientific affairs. Prior to her career in the private sector, she was an ...

Int Ophthalmol Clin. 2014;54(1):103-114. Topiramate is typically started at 25 mg daily and can be titrated up to 100 mg twice daily. It is frequently given in addition to acetazolamide in the ...