Haiti has long had difficulty in protecting its children from harm. The earthquake that struck the country on January 12 destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as it killed many ...
The earthquake of January 12 killed many of Haiti's doctors and nurses and destroyed a large part of the country's medical infrastructure. But Zanmi Lasante (ZL), the Haitian branch of ...
The Democrats' loss of their 60-vote Senate majority after Massachusetts' January 19 special election creates major challenges for passage of comprehensive national health care reform. Critics of the Democrats' proposals ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects approximately 24 million people in the United States, is the leading cause of kidney failure and blindness, and is associated with a doubling to quadrupling ...
A baby girl was delivered prematurely, at 30 weeks' gestation, by emergency cesarean section owing to deceleration and no acceleration on fetal heart-rate monitoring. In addition, she had severe intrauterine ...
A 61-year-old man with a 15-year history of diabetes and resulting foot neuropathy presented with an ulcer of 3 months' duration overlying the first metatarsal head (Panel A). He was ...
Circulatory shock is a medical emergency that is characterized by hypotension and decreased tissue perfusion; if left untreated, it can lead to irreversible cellular injury and death. Hypotension associated with ...
Where did our wisdom about treating epilepsy originate? The ketogenic diet came from ancient teachings. The mistaken belief that seizures were caused by sexual excess led to bromides. Modern medications ...
To the Editor: In the Veterans Affairs Randomized On/Off Bypass (ROOBY) trial, Shroyer et al. (Nov. 5 issue)1 assigned 2203 ...
To the Editor: Sax et al. (Dec. 3 issue)1 found that abacavir-lamivudine was less potent than tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DF)-emtricitabine ...
To the Editor: Mortality from adult obesity and from persistent smoking have already been reliably assessed in studies of tens ...
To the Editor: In the review article by Verma and Mesana (Dec. 3 issue),1 mitral-valve prolapse is defined as the ...
To the Editor: In the article by Desai et al. (Dec. 3 issue),1 the electrocardiogram has the characteristics of one ...