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In their presentation at the 48th ONS Congress, in San Antonio, Texas, Denise Nicholson BSN, RN and Colleen Nevins DNP, RN, CNE describe the best practices for advance care planning conversations and review novel tools for teaching nursing colleagues the necessary soft skills to effectively discuss challenging subjects with patients and their families.
Neil Baum, MDNeil Baum, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Urology, Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA, and author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, and Economically, Jones Bartlett Publishers. Patients with a computer and access to social media can now easily and effortlessly comment on your practice and your services. Most comments about physicians are positive. However, a negative one may be posted by a disgruntled patient. So how do you manage your online reputation?
A new study investigated rates of vaccination against influenza in patients following surgery, and whether vaccination was associated with harmful side effects in these patients.
Dr Laxmi Mehta, from Ohio State University, talks about how treatment options differ between men and women who present with myocardial infarction and how to prevent a subsequent infarction.
<p><span>The cost of supporting people with autism spectrum disorders throughout their lives could be as high as $2.4 million per person, according to a new estimate.</span></p>
<p>Children with an autism spectrum disorder were more likely to have mothers who lived close to fields treated with certain pesticides during pregnancy.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span>A new study documents the effect of waning immunity on a population level.</span></p>
Do I have to treat my daughter’s fever when she is acting fine? What fever reducer should I use, acetaminophen or ibuprofen? And can I use them together and/or alternate them?
The US Food and Drug Administration approved the drug after trials showed a lower rate of relapse in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or withdrawal for any other reason.
By Rob GoodierNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals different activity in the brains of cocaine addicts who have a lack of self-awareness, a new study has found.Compared with healthy controls and addicts who demonstrate normal self-awareness, the addicts with impaired insight had less activity in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) when they made errors on a test.
A recent study examined how sleep duration and restriction affect the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The FDA approved resmetirom for the treatment of adults with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with moderate-to-advanced liver fibrosis.
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic spore-forming bacterium. C difficile infection (CDI) is recognized as the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality.
A recent study sought to examine the risk factors for with weight gain in patients beginning antiretroviral therapy for the management of HIV. Lead author Moupali Das, MD, MPH, answered our questions in this Q&A.
In this "Test Your Knowledge" quiz, Daniel S Fierer, MD, asks you about a new patient with Hepatitis C, and her eligibility for a simplified treatment regimen.
A physician-reported registry of adults with rheumatic diseases and with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 indicates that some therapies, as well severity of disease, are associated with higher death rates.
<p>This article features several cases of skin lesions caused by leisure activities, such as swimming, beach-going, and sports. It features curaneous larva migrans, swimmer's itch, second-degree sunburn, seabather's eruption, and more.</p>