Posted by: admin on: October 17, 2011
Controlling lipid levels in women with cardiovascular disease can be difficult due to a number of challenges, such as unclear guidelines and adverse reactions to medications -Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: October 17, 2011
Antibiotics will only remain useful for so long and new approaches to infectious disease management need to be considered. Is there a way we can force the bacteria to get sick so they can’t do the same to us. Human viral diseases are a big deal. They cause millions of deaths every year, a huge […]
Posted by: admin on: October 17, 2011
Vitamin D is featured in a duo of revised recommendations, one regarding appropriate daily reference intakes for this nutrient and the other focusing on its role in preventing falls in the elderly. First, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has new recommendations for daily reference intakes for vitamin D and calcium across all. It was determined […]
Posted by: admin on: October 14, 2011
Background. Inappropriate use of antibiotics in the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with antimicrobial resistance, which can affect patient outcomes. Procalcitonin, a calcitonin precursor hormone, is a specific marker for bacterial infection in patients with sepsis. The objective of the study was to determine whether an algorithm derived from the biomarker procalcitonin is effective […]