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- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: January 20, 2017
Childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccines continue to indirectly produce widespread societal protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, a re...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: January 13, 2017
Macitentan, a recent addition to the drugs that treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), improves and stabilizes quality of life for patients w...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: January 11, 2017
Although endocrinologists often treat transgender patients, especially those on hormone therapy, many lack the training to do so.
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 13, 2016
An expert panel is calling for preoperative evaluation of infection risk in every patient and surgical timeouts in every case.
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 7, 2016
For pediatric dermatologist Beth Drolet, MD, the tremendous impact oral propranolol has had on the treatment of severe infantile hemangioma is writ...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 7, 2016
A study of infants who underwent ECG screening before receiving propranolol indicates that routine ECG is “not likely to be an effective scre...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 7, 2016
DVDs, iPads, toys, “sweeties” to suck on, buffered lidocaine, and a distracting “angel’s pinch” are just a few of the...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 5, 2016
An active referral program boosted HIV testing of Kenyan children of HIV-positive adults and turned up previously undetected HIV cases, but many pa...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 3, 2016
Of patients in the SUSTAIN trail on high-dose crizanlizumab, 36% had no ‘pain crisis’ attacks.
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 2, 2016
Few skin disorders have the power to devastate lives like ocular rosacea, a painful condition that disrupts vision and can lead to blindness, accor...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: December 2, 2016
Several teens who came home from a trip abroad with ulcerated skin lesions in 2014 got vague and unhelpful diagnoses: Physicians thought they had b...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: November 23, 2016
Dallas dermatologist Alan Menter, MD, doesn’t boast bullying-prevention superpowers, but what he does have is close enough: An eagerness to g...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: November 23, 2016
SAN DIEGO – Medical advances have boosted life expectancy dramatically for people with cystic fibrosis, allowing some to survive into middle age. B...
Article
- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: November 23, 2016
NEWPORT BEACH, CA. – Bed bugs rise when night falls. Drawn by the carbon dioxide of sleeping humans, they gather to feast, leaving bites galo...
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- Author:
- Randy Dotinga
Publish date: November 16, 2016
Weight-loss medications have a role in the management of diabetes, as long as physicians and patients realize these drugs are not an easy fix.
