Posted by: admin on: July 5, 2011
There are some serious misunderstandings out there about the difference between name-brand drugs and generics, as well as some bizarre assumptions about the merits of newer drugs. As a society, we’re addicted to drugs. Almost all of them are legal, and we’re not abusing them per se, but we want them desperately. The problem is that […]
Posted by: admin on: July 5, 2011
Introduction Failure to thrive is a descriptive term for those children less than 5 years of age who have poor weight gain. Classically failure to thrive has been described as weight less than the 3rd centile on two or more separate occasions, or weight which crosses two centile lines over time. While such findings should […]
Posted by: admin on: July 5, 2011
More than half of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide are suffering from infections, which lengthen their hospital stays and increase their mortality rate, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, basic practices for prevention of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in […]