Lawmakers have ignored calls from their own advisers as well as physician groups to boost pay for clinicians amid rising ...

Hospice is not a place, but a concept for healthcare delivery to those dealing with life-limiting illness. Hospice focuses on creating a natural and comfortable end-of-life experience for those ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2007;3(11):778-783. Clinical features initially attributed to PCOS Hirsutism, subfertility, greasy skin and acne Hirsutism, secondary amenorrhea, weight gain ...

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 ...

Vulvovaginal atrophy is a frequently neglected symptom of menopause. While an estimated 10–40% of women are affected by the progressive symptoms of vaginal dryness, irritation, itching, dysuria ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) caused by the CCHF virus, a member of the family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus, is a tick-borne acute viral hemorrhagic fever with a high case–fatality ...

Background: There are several specific inflammatory and oxidative correlates among patients with hypothyroidism, but most studies are cross-sectional and do not evaluate the change in parameters ...

Objective: To compare the 24-hour sustained efficacy and safety of a new tramadol once-daily formulation (tramadol OAD) using Contramid ® controlled-release technology with a marketed twice-daily ...

Objective: To ascertain preventable and non-preventable risk factors for adverse drug events (ADEs) in elderly inpatients at hospital admission. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study ...

Serotonin syndrome is a preventable, drug-related complication that results from increased brain-stem serotonin activity, usually precipitated by the use of one or more serotonergic drugs.

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology provides physicians with authoritative and timely interpretations of key developments in the field, translating the latest findings into ...