Urinary HPV Testing for Presence of Cervical HPV
Can a simple urine test reliably detect HPV infection when pelvic examination is not practical?
Category : Health & Medicine Journal & Academic : Health & Medical
Assessing Unit Dose Discrepancies
Missing doses commonly occur with unit dose systems and may contribute to high medication error rates.
Do Views of African Americans Affect Decision Making?
Using total knee replacement as a test case, this study examined whether physicians were racially biased in their decision-making.
TMP-SMX vs. Vancomycin for Severe Infections Caused by MRSA
Might the old-school antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole be as effective against severe MRSA infections as vancomycin?
Refining the Role of PMS2 in Lynch Syndrome
This study analyzed the contribution of the PMS2 mismatch repair gene in Lynch syndrome by assessing the pathogenicity of variants of unknown significance.
Quality of Life in Women With Urinary Tract Infections
Given the far-reaching effects of UTIs on the quality of life for certain women, should clinicians modify their management of this disease?
Social Factors, Psychopathology, and Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy
How are sociodemographic factors, educational attainment, nicotine dependence, and common psychiatric disorders associated with smoking among pregnant women?
Patient Satisfaction With Service in an Oncology Setting
Are patients being treated for non-small cell lung cancer generally pleased with the healthcare services that they receive, and how can their satisfaction with service be properly measured?
Treatment of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Is there a potential role for this agent in delaying progression to overt diabetes, and protecting against cardiovascular events?
Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Multimorbidity is a key challenge for health-care systems oriented towards the treatment of individual diseases. What strategies work best to parse out which disease is causing what symptom?
Genetic Basis of Drug Metabolism
The term "pharmacogenetics" was first coined by Friedrich Vogel in 1959, who defined it as the "study of the role of genetics in drug response."
Metastatic Rectal Carcinoma Masquerading as Herpes Zoster
The multiple painful skin lesions over the groin area of this patient were initially treated as contact dermatitis, then suspected herpes zoster--but the actual diagnosis was far more ominous.
Paget's Disease of the Male Breast With Lymphomatoid Papulosis
This 67-year-old man presented with a six-month history of a painful right nipple and clear nipple discharge. Was it breast cancer?
Early Performance of a Miniaturized Leadless Cardiac Pacemaker
Learn about the early performance of a novel self-contained miniaturized pacemaker.
Delusions of Intestinal Parasitosis
Delusions of parasitosis, though uncommon, are an important cause of distress for affected patients and frequently of frustration for their physicians.
Substitution in Malaria Diagnostic Tests Causes False-positives
How effective is buffer substitution in malaria testing?
Persistent Negative Visual Aura in Migraine Without Headache
A 21-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of darkening of the right side of her field of vision. What was the cause?
Topical Capsaicin for Pain Management
A new higher concentration capsaicin patch shows promise in pain management.
Neurofibromatosis Type 1: From Genotype to Phenotype
Why do some neurofibromatosis type 1 patients develop severe disease while others with the same mutation have only mild symptoms? This phenotypic variability may be due to modifier genes.
Adverse Reaction to Benzylpenicillin Due to Soy Allergy
While a penicillin allergy was initially suspected in this young child with an itching papular rash at the site of an injection, the cause turned out to be a common, but often hidden ingredient.