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New measures enhance practices' ability to track and improve performance and quality.

Researchers have developed a pig model that mimics the human immune response to H. pylori infection, enabling them to better predict the progression and outcomes of infection.

Acknowledging that C-reactive protein (CRP) is a known infection or inflammation indicator, a team of researchers investigated preoperative CRP level's predictive value with regard to postoperative infectious complications after colorectal surgery.

Local anesthetic wound infiltration is associated with postoperative pain scores comparable to those obtained through epidural analgesia.

Patients who undergo open and minimally-invasive colon surgery on Monday have significantly shorter lengths of hospital stay compared to operations performed on any other day of the week.

In one study, 49% of participants with diabetes had osteoarthritis compared with 26% of participants without diabetes.

The nutritional supplements glucosamine and chondroitin have demonstrated some potential for reducing pain associated with osteoarthritis.

A meta-analysis provides evidence that hyaluronic acid injections improve pain symptoms and function in patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

After examining 24 clinical studies, researchers conclude transverse incisions are less painful for patients - and required significantly less narcotic analgesics - compared to midline incisions.

Following the American Medical Association's formal recognition of obesity as a disease, Boston University researchers attempted to identify better ways to determine health status in obese patients.

Study shows that somatization and low job security are independently associated with low back pain prevalence.

Alcohol use with maraviroc administration increases blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) by 12 percent, but a lower BAC was found in patients taking ritonavir and efavirenz.

UCLA researchers determine the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring system effectively moves patients in the most critical condition to the top of the liver recipient list.

Researchers have studied the effects of hormone therapy on the lipid profiles of postmenopausal women.

Review of the literature finds that although zoledronate and alendronate may have some potential for effective pain management in patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis, overall there is limited evidence supporting the use of bisphosphonates to treat OA pain.

A survey of pediatric subspecialists found that 9 in 10 do not follow guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics for treating preschoolers with ADHD.

A community pharmacist shares his insights and opinions on concerns over the risks involved with ADHD medications for children.

New research findings underscore the need for improved medical and psychiatric care coordination for HIV patients.

Lack of correlation reinforces the need to individualize therapy based on clinical effectiveness for that patient in order to optimize treatment outcomes.

The lifestyle medicine discipline offers the potential to strengthen patients' capacities to make healthier choices and foster good health.

Steven P. Levine, MD, reminds prescribers to satisfy the voices in their heads by acknowledging that any medicine may be poisonous to patients.

A recent study found each missed physician visit increases an HIV patient's risk of death by 12 percent.

Researchers determine that recurrent miscarriage risk is elevated in women who carry the ACE I/D polymorphism.

When alcohol consumption is a concern, it's better to prescribe antiretroviral therapy in HIV patients than to withhold it, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital of Berne in Switzerland.

Christopher Kaeding, MD, Director of Sports Medicine at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, recently live-streamed surgery as he repaired a 47-year-old woman's anterior cruciate ligament.

Using nutritional supplement mixtures consisting of arginine, glutamine, and beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) may speed up wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers.

In a study published in Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, a professor in the Department of Digestive System at Xingtai People's Hospital in China, investigated the correlation between psychological status and the mechanism of action of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D).

In a clinical review published in Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, researchers from Iwate Medical University in Japan evaluated the long-term safety and efficacy of the novel serotonin-receptor agonist ramosetron in patients suffering from diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D).

A team of investigators have revisited ultrasound as a tool for providing more targeted essential tremor treatment.

The new Federation of State Medical Boards Model Policy for the Use of Opioid Analgesics in the Treatment of Chronic Pain is designed to help ensure physicians who prescribe or use opioids do so "in full compliance with state and federal regulations, accepted clinical practice, and in a manner that is safe and reduces risk."