NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disinfectant use and other simple interventions are helpful in combating Clostridium difficile, a major infectious cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral zinc is not an effective treatment for acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in children from developed countries, suggest results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s guidance on the dosing of prophylactic oseltamivir for premature neonates exposed to H1N1 influenza, in a “Brief Report” in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A South African study shows that HIV-infected patients do better when they begin treatment above rather than below 200 cells/µL. The results, reported…
Hot Flash Havoc is a provocative and revealing film about menopause. Hot Flash Havoc sets the record straight about the Women’s Health Initiative study released in 2002, which…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins may be overused in patients without cardiovascular disease, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers pooled data from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The quadrivalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine is associated with twice as many febrile seizures as same-day vaccination with separate MMR and varicella vaccines, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of elderly patients who come out of the hospital after pneumonia either die within a year or get readmitted for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), adding a later-generation fluoroquinolone to the treatment regimen may improve outcomes, even when drug-susceptibility testing…
The Doctor’s Channel covered SHM 2010 in Washington, D.C., the annual meeting for the Society of Hospital Medicine. At SHM 2010, those associated with hospital medicine collaborate with…