If drugs could be developed to target tau, they might prevent much of the neurodegeneration that characterizes Alzheimer disease and help prevent or delay dementia.

After more than 30 years, the FDA re-approves use of medication for pregnant women for whom conservative management of nausea and vomiting (eg, changes in diet and lifestyle) is ineffective.

About one-quarter of Medicare patients may be undergoing inappropriate colonoscopy screening, according to a new study. Details here.

Can you recognize a patient's malady quickly and correctly? Are you adept at choosing the most appropriate treatment? Then face-off against your peers and test your skills in a battle for diagnostic supremacy!

Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is largely good news for patients with HIV, many of whom have been denied coverage under preexisting condition clauses. However, some questions and some gaps in coverage remain to be addressed.

When the FDA approved pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, observers wondered whether or not the strategy was cost effective. A study has now analyzed the question. Answer: It depends.

With no drugs to offer a cure for multiple sclerosis, clinicians should have a wide variety of treatment options available for their patients.

(AUDIO) How often should people be (re)tested for HIV? A pair of industrial efficiency experts looked at current HIV testing recommendations, and found them too conservative.

After the patient received 2 doses of the medication, the parents noticed that the G-tube was clogged off. What's the problem here?

Dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera) is approved for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

PCPs for sleep apnea?; mental illness and obesity; norovirus on the rise; global sodium overdose

Recommended levels of sodium intake are exceeded by 75% of the world's population, according to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study.

Spinal problems include epidural abscess, paravertebral muscle atrophy, Chiari I malformation, osteomyelitis/discitis, diastematomyelia, spinal compression, spinal tuberculosis.

Raised in a morgue, I worked alongside Dad, the city medical examiner. Over fifty years, he amassed a huge collection of medical artifacts.

Elevated levels of the biomarker C-reactive protein in patients with HIV infection increased the risk of MI approximately 2-fold.

Much like HIV/AIDS, RA is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and consequent death. How might inflammation add to the risk?

An obese woman in her thirties with a history of fibromyalgia syndrome, depression, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and diabetes mellitus presents to her local emergency department with 1 week of gradually worsening midline back pain.

Sleep apnea in adults aged 65 years or older posed an increased risk for silent cerebral infarction and lacunar infarction.

(AUDIO) For older as well as young patients, clinicians should be sure to test regularly for HIV as the CDC advises, says a researcher who tells in this interview how suspicions about the origin of AIDS and the involvement of government may discourage older people from being tested.