Malnourished children in Malawi, Africa, who were treated with antibiotics in addition to a peanut-based spread were more likely to survive than children who received only the spread, according to results of a randomized trial published in the New England… Read More ›
Mom’s admonishment to “Eat your veggies” appears to be sound advice, at least with respect to reducing risk of heart disease. Researchers from the University of Oxford in England found that compared with people who eat meat and fish, vegetarians… Read More ›
Protagonists struggling with bipolar disorder are all the rage in television, movies, and the theatre. From Central Intelligence Agency officer Carrie Mathison in Homeland, to former teacher Pat Solitano in Silver Linings Playbook, to suburban mother Diana Goodman in the… Read More ›
Patient care may be suffering at many hospitals because hospital physicians are often overloaded, suggest results from a survey published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. Concerns that clinicians at hospitals were stretched thin by excessive caseloads or fatigue led to… Read More ›
By Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ A new type of influenza vaccine approved last week by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offers the promise of faster production of flu vaccine. The approach used to make the recombinant vaccine,… Read More ›
Vaccinating young children to protect them from rotavirus also appears to give indirect protection to adults, say researchers whose findings appeared today in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Symptoms of rotavirus infection, the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and… Read More ›
Last month, I wrote about the slow trickle of states that were either agreeing or refusing to create local insurance exchanges as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prescribes. This is one of the 2 major decisions states will have to… Read More ›
