Author: Janine Anthes

Patients with AD and more severe disease have higher scores on dermatology life quality index

Mild cognitive impairment, freezing of gait, elevated leukocytes in CSF tied to shorter survival

Treatment should include multimodal approaches to address knee, hip, foot, ankle impairments

Those with minimal disease may be cured with a four-month versus six-month treatment regimen

Visible fluorescence shows presence of high-grade glioma cells within tumor mass during surgery

No increased risk for recurrence with 1.1 GBq versus 3.7 GBq RAI at 3-, 5-, 7-year follow-up

Twenty percent drop in antibiotic prophylaxis, 177 percent increase in IE incidence for high-risk

Hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates vary greatly depending on data sources

Overall, 1.7 and 1.0 percent of all U.S. adults HCV antibody-positive and HCV RNA-positive

No significant difference in mean peak oxygen consumption in nitrite phase versus placebo phase

219 possible cases of acute flaccid myelitis reported in 25 states

Outbreak in North Kivu province is in its fourth month, and there have been nearly 300 cases

Annual number of deaths expected to continue to decrease despite growth, aging of U.S. population

Parents are encouraged to use healthy forms of discipline such as positive reinforcement

Prenatal exposure to 5 groups of meds had nominally significant links to ASD

Higher risk for premature birth, low birth weight, low Apgar score seen with older paternal age

Healthy human appendix contains intraneuronal α-synuclein aggregates, truncation products

Opioid prescription independently tied to likelihood of having atrial fibrillation in cohort of young veterans

Second study shows improved one-month survival with favorable neurological outcome with public AED use