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I watched a student reading her text from a hand-held device not too long ago in class, and wondered how she could read print that it fit such a small screen. Soon I'll find out for myself I've just been informed by a family member that a Nook is coming my way after the holidays.

This CME activity provides a detailed overview of key topics in influenza prevention and management.

Last week, Biogen Idec announced that its oral compound BG-12 (dimethyl fumarate) achieved key milestones in clinical trials for multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

What the nurse wrote for the New York Times, and how the public responded.

Researchers at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have developed a method for quickly determining volume of blood loss that is more accurate than the visual estimates currently used by many emergency medical technicians.

Parental concerns and the willingness to adopt mobile-phone-based technology are likely tied to the unmet need of parents, including provider access, limited available information and support, and the complex management of children with diabetes.

Read a prime example of costly, possibly harmful procedures where well over half are deemed unnecessary...

Diabetics may have more difficulty accessing nutritious foods than those without the health condition, leading to unhealthy lifestyle choices, say Canadian researchers.

An additional cup of coffee consumed in a day was associated with a 7 percent reduction in the excess risk of diabetes according to the findings of meta analysis of studies examining coffee and tea consumption and diabetes risk.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has issued a new set of guidelines for using aspirin and other NSAID medications during endoscopic procedures.

Arthritis of the cricoarytenoid joints is not as rare as is commonly believed. Many sources still consider cricoarytenoid arthritis to be an atypical symptom of rheumatoid arthritis in spite of evidence to the contrary.

Patients with heart disease should also be tested for COPD, according to new research, as more than one quarter of patients with heart disease may also have COPD and not yet know it.

In 1904, the Scottish author Sir James Matthew Barrie sent Peter Pan off to Never-Never Land to escape growing up and to enjoy many-many adventures. As children, we all hoped it really existed. In truth, many of us fantasized, one day, to make the trip ourselves. Well, good news for physicians - that day has arrived!

In addition to promulgating standards of care regarding glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which were discussed in part 1 of this series, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has also outlined blood pressure goals. This report will review these blood pressure goals and discuss important components of the physical examination for diabetic patients, including eye and renal evaluations.

Although many of my patients over the years have received radiation therapy, I am by no means a radiation nurse or expert in the field. So when a patient recently asked me the differences in the types of radiation that they have been seeing advertised and what would be the best treatment for them, I had to do some studying.

A new nuclear medicine technique may allow physicians to diagnose pneumonia-like symptoms with a urine test.

A physician's recent experience with two patients suffering from congenital insensitivity to pain has led to the discovery of an extra layer of "sensory feedback" in the skin.

This podcast interview with Dr. Carol Campbell, focuses on Campbell's study which explores how patients suffering from chronic pain who discuss their pain often and freely can frustrate and alienate family and friends.

The Virtual Anesthesia Textbook seeks to "organise all Internet resources on anaesthesia into one concise, textbook style website." Browsing medical professionals will benefit from chapters covering statistics, research, legal and ethical issues, post-operative pain management, and more.

The World Health Organization has developed this three-step pain ladder to guide proper administration of medication in order to "maintain freedom from cancer pain."

This activity covers a German report in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders that found of 448 patients reporting at least one episode of neck pain between March 2005 and April 2006, "depression and anxiety were highly significantly correlated with increasing levels of neck pain."

This two hour-long podcast comprises two CME activities with accompanying slides, based on presentations made at Palliative Medicine 2008.

Yale School of Medicine provides this coloring book that doubles as a guide for children to understanding MRIs and spinal taps.

With regard to S. aureus pneumonia, these authors aimed to determine if beta-cyclodextrin derivatives were an effective treatment.

Study authors aimed to determine whether serum and salivary anti-BPI autoantibodies also appear in the course of acute pneumonia in 24 otherwise healthy children.

These researchers found that ethnicity is an important factor in identifying specific COPD genes.

Differences between ventilator-associated pneumonia and healthcare-associated pneumonia that were presented at the 2008 CHEST meeting are discussed in this activity.

This educational activity discusses the results of an April 2009 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine about proton-pump inhibitors and asthma control.

Diagnosis, treatment, and combination therapy of COPD are all covered in this CME activity.

This clinical trial aims to provide information, such as risk factors and etiology, about CAP.