TORCH infections are unique in their pathogenesis and have potentially devastating clinical manifestations. Congenital toxoplasmosis remains an important cause of blindness, although avoiding ...

Objective Many societies recommend using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than serum creatinine (sCr) to determine metformin eligibility. We examined the potential impact of ...

A 20-year-old female presented with a history of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis since childhood. She started treatment with etanercept (Enbrel ®) 1 month previously. One day after a ...

Background: Although psychoses and ethnicity are well researched, the importance of culture, race and ethnicity has been overlooked in Personality Disorders (PD) research. This study aimed to ...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. It affects more than 5 million individuals in the USA, and another 660,000 new cases are diagnosed each ...

How much vitamin D is enough? Over the past decade, rickets has re-emerged as a noticeable public health issue in some areas (Lanham-New et al, 2010) and many physicians have been ordering lab ...

Migraine is a common neurological syndrome that affects approximately 10–20% of the population. The pathophysiology of migraine is unclear. 5-hydroxytriptamine is a key mediator in the ...

A 6-year-old boy was apparently well 4 months prior reporting to the clinic, when his parents noticed an asymptomatic, progressive change in the texture of his fingernails and toenails. They ...

a The three most commonly used maintenance doses are depicted. b Patients taking 25-50 mg once daily should take one supplemental pregabalin dose of 50 or 75 mg after hemodialysis. c Patients ...

Karen L. Hassenplug, Pharm.D.; Jill S. Burkiewicz, Pharm.D., BCPS; Terri L. Jackson, Ph.D., B.S.Pharm.; Laura R. Peppers, Pharm.D., BCPS Identifying baseline ...

Medscape was launched to the world on Monday, May 22, 1995. A few days later, Bill Seitz, SCP's manager of electronic medical information, posted the following notice on the Internet's "usenet ...

†High patient compliance after training. ‡Likely to be preferred for frail patients. Adapted from [34].