Ellis Parker, MSN, RN, from Level Up RN, discusses the different levels of health prevention—primary, secondary, and tertiary—and the significant role of health determinants. She uses the community…
Most vaccines help the immune system learn to identify and fight off harmful viruses or bacteria before someone gets sick. But, scientists are also creating vaccines to treat…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether the catheter is removed or not has no bearing on the resolution of catheter-related coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia following treatment with antimicrobial therapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Opioid analgesics should not be used in elderly patients with osteoarthritis even if their pain is severe, because the associated risks are so…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For now at least, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) does not recommend that nontraditional risk factors for coronary heart disease be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Bilirubin screening in all infants could reduce the incidence of severe hyperbilirubinemia, but at the same time increase use of phototherapy at bilirubin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In response, in part, to the availability of new vaccines, the Infectious Diseases Society of America has issued an update to their 2002…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a large population-based study in Denmark suggest that children born to women who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who become mothers are more likely to develop the metabolic syndrome during middle age than are their nulliparous counterparts, prospective study findings…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency are at increased risk for systolic hypertension in the coming years, according to study findings presented Thursday…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the 2007-2008 flu season, the licensed inactivated flu vaccine was 50% more effective than the live attenuated vaccine in preventing laboratory-confirmed symptomatic…
