English- and Spanish-speaking parents cited widely differing reasons for avoiding vaccination for their eligible daughters or failing to ensure the 3 doses were received.
All News
Advertisement
Advertisement
Vitamin D supplementation in the VitDISH study did not improve isolated systolic hypertension in elderly patients who were deficient.
In hospitalized HIV patients, medication errors are common and can be mitigated by enlisting ID specialists.
The norovirus vaccine, while not preventive of all disease, does significantly reduce the severity of symptoms.
The association of missed visits and increased mortality in HIV-infected patients is related to factors other than access to care.
Thirty-day hospital readmission rates in adults infected with HIV are driven largely by CD4+ count and length of stay.
Clostridium difficile colitis can be cured by having patients swallow capsules brimming with other people’s concentrated stool. Inexpensive, effective, and readily available. This could be an enormous opportunity for primary care (if the FDA approves it).
Primary care physicians can tell their sleep apnea patients that not only will they be healthier but they may well look more alert, more attractive, and more youthful.
This is an opportunity for primary care to help avert a public health catastrophe. Physicians need to take ownership over this issue and demand more time for URI patients-E&M criteria do not capture what is lost when these visits are viewed simply as “Level 2 Office Visit, CPT 99212.”
Most parents of boys aged 9 to 18 years do not know that an HPV vaccine is available for their sons. One major factor is a lack of information. This is where you play a vital role.
Advertisement
“STD organisms are all part of an ecological pool that simply share one thing in common: sex," says the author of a new study. Testing for all important STD pathogens is the only way to detect all agents that might be involved in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Details here.
When patients develop diarrhea in the hospital within 48 hours after admission, it is most likely antibiotic-associated diarrhea, including CDAD.
Trimethylamine-N-oxide, TMAO, is a by-product of the metabolic breakdown of certain foods; elevated levels have been correlated with coronary atherosclerosis.
A new study finds that intermittent dosing of a statin can be an effective treatment option for some patients who previously demonstrated intolerance to statins.
Discussing care decisions and agreeing on how to go forward is a skill that can be learned-by physicians and patients alike.
Neurological disorders have been considered a significant threat to public health for some time. Take a look at these facts and figures.
You have a platform here to share with your colleagues your hopes and concerns about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on your practice.
Training is crucial in medicine, as in boxing, to ensure you can absorb the body block, and go back out again.
A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and I am proof. There is a lot more to the saga and much of the information is essential to decision making in primary care practice on whether or not testosterone replacement is indicated.
This case focuses on duplicate therapy resulting from the use of prescription medications, which can result in serious adverse effects.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement