A new study suggests that electrostimulation of the vagus nerve may reduce the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic…
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HIV epidemiology among female sex workers and their clients in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions
HIV epidemiology among female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is…
Make Scientific Reading Great and More Meaningful Again: Reappraisal of the TraditionalP Value in Modern-Day Clinical Research and Practice
The medical literature is replete with clinical and epidemiological research of varying quality that would hopefully be pertinent and useful…
Poliosis Circumscripta: A Mark of Melanoma
Megan D. Schollenberger, CRNP1, Julie E. Stein, MD2, Janis M. Taube, MD1,2,3, Evan J. Lipson,MD1,⁎ evanlipson@jhmi.edu (See Fig. 1.)
Profound Hypoglycemia in a Hospitalized Patient: Paraneoplastic Insulin-Like Growth Factor
A 96-year-old African American woman presented from a nursing home to our hospital with bilateral erythematous and edematous legs. Her…
Understanding C. auris transmission with the healthcare environment
Researchers have now shown that patients who are heavily colonized with Candida auris on their skin can shed the fungus…
Prolonged transmission of a resistant bacterial strain in a Northern California hospital
Researchers have used whole genome sequencing (WGS) to demonstrate transmission of a single bacterial strain that possessed a carbapenem-resistance gene…
The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge
Researchers have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases,…