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- Antimicrobial resistance: An ecological approach to a growing threat
Instead of confidently awaiting the next generation of antibiotics to conquer antibiotic resistance, physicians must take a humbler view. With an illustration explaining how bacteria acquire resistance.
- Cancer information and the Internet: Benefits and risks
The Internet has potential to educate the public about health care, Kit also can harm through misleading and deceptive information.
- The connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and neurally mediated hypotension
Some research indicates that some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have abnormal vasovagal or vasodepressor responses to upright posture. But subsequent studies have not corroborated these results.
- The EPILOG Trial
The platelet glycoprotein Ilb/IIIa inhibitor abciximab, together with heparin in a low, weight-adjusted dose, markedly reduced the risk of acute ischemic complications during angioplasty, without increasing the risk of hemorrhage.
- Group a Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis
Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.
- The high cost of terminal care: Balancing conflicting goals
In caring for patients at the end of life, physicians are often torn hy conflicting goals.
- Agitated dementia: Drug vs nondrug treatment
An individualized approach to identify and treat the cause of the agitation is more effective than simply prescribing neuroleptic drugs.