An experimental handheld ultrasonic device used in an office setting was shown to guide residual kidney stone fragments out ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

The question of putative mechanisms of action continues to haunt psychopharmacology. Put simply, we know these drugs work, but we have very little idea how. We make guesses based on the ...

Practical Approach to Teaching Genomics for Primary Care APNs Whether planning a separate course or integrating into existing curricula, providing genomics education is a challenge for advanced ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronically relapsing eczematous disease, more common in infants and children than in adults and very rare after midlife. The diagnosis of AD is not always easy in ...

Preventive antimigraine therapy (PAM) should probably not be considered until the headache frequency exceeds 1 per week. PAM is associated with significant side effects and often with ...

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...

In addition to its widely recognized effects on gait, posture, balance, and upper limb coordination, Parkinson's disease (PD) can have a profound effect on speech and voice, within a cluster of ...

Identified risk factors for acquiring genital herpes infection include larger number of lifetime sexual partners, history of sexually transmitted infections, increasing age, and sexually ...

Linking religion with medicine may seem intuitive. But, as we argue along with a group of healthcare chaplains and biomedical researchers in a report in the June 22 New England Journal of Medicine ...

To provide an increasing body of knowledge related to umbilical cord care, a literature review was conducted to study the evolution of umbilical cord care, to evaluate the scientific evidence used ...

Onset 2 years ago in right wrist area, which was initially swollen and painful. Anti-inflammatory drugs were prescribed with little improvement. Swelling and pain then developed in both ankles and ...