Young-Age Prostate Cancer
While prostate cancer is usually a disease of the elderly, it is not uncommon in younger men. How do clinical, biologic, and genetic features differ between these two age groups?
Category : Health & Medicine Journal & Academic : Health & Medical
A Population-based Case-Control Study of Stillbirth
What factors might help to explain the persistent racial disparity in stillbirth?
Major Bleeding in AF Patients Treated With Apixaban or Warfarin
Learn more about the clinical consequences of major bleeds, as well as management and treatment effects of warfarin vs. apixaban.
Low Serum Potassium Predicts Chronic Kidney Disease
Could serum potassium concentration be a clinically relevant risk factor for the progression of chronic kidney disease?
Scope of Practice and ABFM Recertification Exam Performance
While recent studies suggested that rural family physicians are more likely to pass the ABFM Maintenance of Certification exam, it may have more to do with practice scope than location.
Assessing Protection in Anaesthetic Preconditioning
How do we assess clinical outcomes of anesthetic preconditioning?
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Preschool Immunizations: United
Although childhood immunization coverage in the United States has reached an all-time high, racial/ethnic disparities persist at the national and local levels, even when the effects of socioeconomic differences are considered.
Inhibition of IL-1 in Patients With RA and T2DM
Can treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with IL-1 blockade also improve metabolic status in patients with associated Type 2 diabetes?
Patients, Family Caregivers, and Quality of Chronic Care
Do patients and their caregivers rate the quality of healthcare differently and, if so, what are the reasons?
Peliosis Hepatis After Treatment
This condition can be associated with malignancies, immunosuppression, and infections, as well as with certain drugs, seen in this case report of a 70-year-old woman.
Screening and Treatment to Prevent Cryptococcal Meningitis
Does cryptococcal antigen screening and testing have an impact on preventing cryptococcal meningitis in people with AIDS?
Choline Intake During Pregnancy and Child Cognition at Age 7
Does increased maternal intake of choline and other methyl donor nutrients during the first and second trimester improve child visual memory and cognition?
Fecal Hemoglobin and Severity of Colorectal Neoplasia
This study investigated the relationship of fecal hemoglobin concentration with lesion size and grade of colorectal neoplasms.
EBV Antibodies and the Risk of Associated Malignancies
This study examines the relationship between the antibody response to Epstein-Barr virus and the risk of developing EBV-associated tumors.
Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality for US Black Women
Why is it that, in contrast to other cancers, ischemic heart disease, and stroke, the breast cancer mortality disparity between blacks and whites has widened over the past 30 years?
Immediate Development of Post-Varicocelectomy Hydrocele
This unusual case describes a rare occurrence of immediate onset of hydrocele formation following varicocele repair.
Readmission Risk Factors for General Medicine Patients
What are the most common risk factors and patient characteristics that contribute to potentially avoidable readmissions?
Capitated Payments and the Delivery of Patient Education
Are patients more likely to receive health education if their primary care providers receive primarily capitated payment?
Insomnia and the Risk of Incident Heart Failure
Find out more about the insidious connections between insomnia and heart disease.
Muscle Wasting in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
Get the 'skinny' on cardiac cachexia in chronic heart failure.