Primary Care Fellowship Training and Career Satisfaction
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Category : Health & Medicine Journal & Academic : Health & Medical
A Possible Case of Saw Palmetto-Induced Pancreatitis
A male patient with urinary hesitancy develops acute pancreatitis. Was self-treatment with saw palmetto the cause?
High-grade Atrioventricular Block in Acute Coronary Syndromes
This complication continues to have a high risk of in-hospital death. Who's most impacted?
Fecal Hemoglobin and Severity of Colorectal Neoplasia
This study investigated the relationship of fecal hemoglobin concentration with lesion size and grade of colorectal neoplasms.
Abnormal Breast Cancer Screening Results
Do women residing in rural and urban areas have equal access to appropriate diagnostic procedures after abnormal breast cancer screening results?
Aldosterone, Mortality, and Acute Ischaemic Events in CAD
What is the relationship between the level of aldosterone and the risk of death and acute ischemic events in CAD patients with a preserved left ventricular function and no acute MI?
Cluster Headache Associated With a Pituitary Adenoma
This patient's one-month history of attacks of excruciatingly severe stabbing right-sided orbital pain was diagnosed as cluster headache, but MRI revealed a more specific cause.
E-Cigarettes: A Perspective for the Primary Care Physician
More and more patients have begun to use electronic cigarettes for nicotine delivery. Are they really effective as a cessation tool?
Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is not a blood bank screening method that is practical, affordable and suitably sensitive for use in sub-Saharan Africa. Is there another method to prevent transfusion-transmitted malaria?
Nurse Practitioners vs MD Providers in Diabetes Care
How does quideline driven care from a nurse practitioner in a free diabetic clinic match up with non-guideline driven care given by medical doctors?
Ethical and Legal Challenges in Disaster Medicine
Hurricane Katrina taught us many valuable lessons in disaster planning, and some improvements have been made. But are you and your hospital prepared for the next big one?
Meningococcal Disease
Invasive meningococcal disease is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children and young adults in the United States, with an estimated 2,600 cases each year.
A Desktop Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
SNVerGUI is an easy-to-use desktop interface which will speed the identification of genomic variants from pooled sequencing and individual sequencing data.
Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Multimorbidity is a key challenge for health-care systems oriented towards the treatment of individual diseases. What strategies work best to parse out which disease is causing what symptom?
Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Surviving Relatives
What is a molecular autopsy and how can it help grieving families?
Antidepressant Use By Young People After FDA Warnings
The FDA has issued widely publicized health advisories warning that youth taking antidepressants were at increased risk of suicidality. How has this impacted outcomes?
Reporting Endometrial Cells in Women 40 Years and Older
Reporting exfoliated benign emdometrial cells (EMs) for premenopausal women 40 years and older has no clinical significance but does for postmenopausal women, regardless of HRT and symptoms.
Combined Oral Contraceptives and Venous Thrombosis Risk
Many observational studies have shown that combined oral contraceptives are associated with increased risk of venous thrombosis. This meta-analysis aimed to provide a true risk profile.
Effectiveness of Case Management for Homeless Persons
What types of case management strategies are most effective when working with homeless populations?
Drug Therapy During Labor and Delivery, Part 1
Many medications used for women in labor are not FDA-approved for those indications, making it important to fully understand their benefits and limitations.