Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 22, 2016
“Negative” appendectomy – appendectomy in which the surgeon discovers there is no appendicitis – is associated with a prolonged hospital stay, grea...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 20, 2016
A 1-month course of pritelivir reduced genital HSV-2 shedding more than valacyclovir did in a small phase II clinical trial.
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 20, 2016
Asymptomatic adults and adolescents should not undergo routine serologic screening for genital herpes because the harms outweigh the benefits, acco...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 19, 2016
The U.S. death rate from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, soared by 72.2% from 2014 to 2015, according to the CDC.
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 19, 2016
Derivative of thalidomide with immunomodulatory, antiangiogenic, and antiproliferative properties was well tolerated and effective against Kaposi’s...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 13, 2016
Mild to moderate hypertriglyceridemia, not just severe hypertriglyceridemia, is associated with increased risk of acute pancreatitis, according to ...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 12, 2016
Statins taken to reduce cholesterol also protect most patients against Alzheimer’s disease, but the decrease in risk varies across different statin...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 12, 2016
The sequential use of two diagnostic tests – one assessing cerebrospinal fluid and the other assessing nasal swabs – identifies sporadi...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 7, 2016
Adoptive transfer of cytotoxic T cells targeting a specific KRAS mutation (KRAS G12D) expressed by a metastatic colorectal cancer induced the regre...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 7, 2016
Infantile hemangiomas of the nose develop more complications than those at all other sites combined.
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 6, 2016
Daily full-body moisturizing of babies from birth to 6 months of age was cost effective and may prove to be a simple preventive strategy to reduce ...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 5, 2016
New guideline encourages clinicians to maintain a high suspicion for cardiac dysfunction and a low threshold for cardiac assessment with any surviv...
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 5, 2016
Postoperative use of both opioid and nonopioid analgesics was lower after robotic surgery than after laparotomy for endometrial cancer.
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 2, 2016
The rate of infection with resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa among children has risen steadily by 4% annually since 1999.
Article
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: December 1, 2016
The percentage of VTE patients who had occult cancer increased with advancing age, from 2%-3% in the youngest age group to 8%-12% in the oldest age...
