A culturally sensitive questionnaire was used to assess risk for type 2 diabetes in Trinidad.
The British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease

Learn more about the assessment and management of WPW in infants.
Neonatal Network

Risk factors, causes, and treatments for brachytherapy-induced nausea and vomiting are discussed.
Urologic Nursing

Skin patch tests can be used to help drug allergy diagnosis and identify causally relevant drugs, but not consistently across major categories of drugs.
Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Resolution of statin-induced myalgias with vitamin D supplementation may allow the use of powerful statin therapy in cases where it would not otherwise be tolerated.
Southern Medical Journal

Dr. Robert Findling discusses the need for and means of achieving effective collaborative care between psychiatrists and primary care practitioners.
Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health

A 42-year-old man presents with dyspnea that has been worsening for the past 2 years and is associated with decreased exercise tolerance. CT angiography of the chest is performed. What is the diagnosis?
Medscape

Guess both the patient and his physician's diagnosis in another historical case from this popular series.
Medscape General Surgery

A play performed at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association portrays the world of a patient with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology

Dr. Wylie Burke discusses some of the ethical issues associated with DTC genetic testing, including consent, data sharing, clinical validity, and more.
Medscape Genomic Medicine

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for a low-level medical laser as the first noninvasive aesthetic device indicated for the circumferential reduction of the waist, hips, and thighs.
Medscape Medical News

An elevated liver function test for 1 patient appears to be related to gallstones, according to the chief medical officer of Idenix.
Medscape Medical News

Iron Supplements Safely Reduce Risk for Anemia in Marginally LBW Infants
Medscape Medical News

A new study of children at one U.S. hospital points to what seems to be a little-recognized form of deliberate self-injury where kids embed objects ranging from glass to needles to wood under their own skin.
Reuters Health Information

It has emerged this week that UK experts recommended the withdrawal of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone from the British market in July, although this recommendation was not made public at the time.
Heartwire

Canadian researchers find that chronic stress that leads to MI is signaled by high cortisol concentrations in the patient's hair.
Heartwire

The course of anxiety and related disorders in young at-risk children can potentially be altered with a brief intervention for parents, researchers are reporting.
Medscape Medical News

The diets, already gaining popularity in several other types of epilepsy, also appear to be useful in difficult-to-treat absence epilepsy.
Medscape Medical News

The results are in line with the increased risk of MI seen with NSAIDs and strengthen the need for more careful regulation of these drugs, the study author says.
Heartwire

Compared with the combination of fluorouracil plus folinic acid, gemcitabine did not result in improved survival among patients with completely resected pancreatic cancer.
Medscape Medical News