Serious liver and nonliver outcomes linked to metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease were different between ...

A carefully classified dataset of perinatal mortality will retain the most significant information on the causes of death. Such information is needed for health care policy development ...

Context: Children's exposure to violence, sexual themes, profanity, and the depiction of substances in movies remains a source of parental and public health concern. However, limited research ...

Simply defined, a cystocele is a protrusion of the bladder into the vagina due to defects in pelvic support (Fig. 1). The radiographic definition of a cystocele is descent of the bladder base ...

There is a general consensus among clinicians that a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level ≥4.0 ng/ml is predictive of prostate cancer, and necessitates a biopsy. But there is a dearth of ...

Hypertonic saline (HTS) is an osmotic agent that can help patients in the acute phase of severe traumatic brain injury. HTS extracts fluid from swollen cerebral tissue to both control intracranial ...

Generalized contact eczema due to 2-phenoxyethanol has been described in a single case report. In the United States, an 18-month-old boy with a strong family history of atopic dermatitis and ...

Since the inception of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in the 1960s, NPs have thrived in the delivery of primary healthcare and nurse case management. Despite patient satisfaction with NPs' style ...

Objective: To compare the 24-hour sustained efficacy and safety of a new tramadol once-daily formulation (tramadol OAD) using Contramid ® controlled-release technology with a marketed twice-daily ...

The treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) that causes lower urinary tract symptoms has advanced enormously since the days when it was a simple choice between no treatment with ...

Pamela J. Mccabe, PH.D., R.N.; Susan A. Barnason, PH.D., R.N.; Julia Houfek, PH.D., R.N. The association between stronger beliefs that the illness is caused by ...

Optic Neuritis: Clinical Features Optic neuritis refers to inflammation of the optic nerve. The term may be used broadly in reference to many causes of optic nerve inflammation including systemic ...