Success rates help indicate how effective various treatments are. Here, we provide success rates of treatments involving chemotherapy for various…
Scientific Authors in a Changing World of Scholarly Communication: What Does the Future Hold?
Scholarly communication in science, technology and medicine has been organized around journal-based scientific publishing for the past 350years. Scientific publishing…
Pain Neurology
Pain is often the initial complaint for which patients seek medical care presenting both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to…
Salt, No Salt or Less Salt For Heart Failure Patients?
Restricting dietary sodium is a common recommendation given by clinicians to heart failure patients, one supported by current guidelines. However,…
Splenic vein thrombosis – caught in the middle
A 57-year-old man was admitted with abdominal pain and vomiting over 3days. Vital signs were normal and examination showed only…
Rapid diagnosis of infective endocarditis using pocket size ultrasound
A 43-year-old man with past history of non IV drug use and Hepatitis C was hospitalized in Internal medicine department…
Misdiagnosis of liver abscess owing to misunderstood culture results
An 83-year-old man visited the emergency department with a high-grade fever that lasted for several hours. His past medical history…
Drinking Bleach Won’t Cure Autism or Cancer, F.D.A. Says
Alarmed about misinformation online, the agency warned about bleach solutions that are being marketed as cures for autism, H.I.V./AIDS and…