Is the severity of maternal HIV infection associated with low birth weight or preterm delivery?

What is the role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers in the differential diagnosis and prognosis of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors?

The implementation of an acrostic can result in more complete and accurate documentation of ward rounds, a new study finds.

Learn more about long-term results from randomized trials of CABG vs PCI using drug-eluting stents.

Will more statin use in patients with PAD create fewer amputees?

Learn more about the clinical consequences of major bleeds, as well as management and treatment effects of warfarin vs. apixaban.

This review identified the factors which facilitate implementing a complex multi-component quality improvement program regarding hospital care for older patients.

Is substituting nevirapine for rilpivirine safe and effective in virologically suppressed HIV patients?

Can concepts from lean thinking inform how healthcare is delivered?

Serum free light chain, or sFLC, shows promise as a significant prognostic marker in B-cell lymphoma, CLL, and other lymphoproliferative disorders.

Obese patients have a strong risk for chronic kidney disease. Learn the epidemiology, presentation, and proposed mechanisms for CKD in the obese patient in this review.

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency testing in at-risk patients is often by isoelectric focusing (IEF). Might a diagnostic algorithm using real-time PCR analysis and IEF help detect rare deficiency alleles

People without health insurance often have different health-care–seeking behaviors than people who are insured.

Are men who have an increased risk of HIV willing to use pre-exposure prophylaxis?

Agitation and aggression are common in people with dementia, especially those confined to nursing homes. Could undiagnosed pain be the underlying cause of agitation in many of these patients?

Awareness of GERD and Sandifer's syndrome may spare neurologically impaired children from persistent symptoms and delayed appropriate treatment.

Keeping testosterone replacement therapy in check may prevent heart attacks.

Resolution of statin-induced myalgias with vitamin D supplementation may allow the use of powerful statin therapy in cases where it would not otherwise be tolerated.

Should breast cancer be included in the spectrum of cancers associated with Lynch syndrome and proven MMR mutations?

The authors describe a novel mutation isolated from an Irish Traveler population which results in DNA breakage and NK cell deficiency, and should be considered in children with failure to thrive.