Imagine caring for 25,000 individuals instead of 2000. Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, Robert Harrington, MD, talks medicine in 2050.

When you do make recommendations, let’s not forget the importance of instituting culturally competent joint decision-making,” ...

Cancellations of NIH grant review panels, in particular, could affectcancer research grants and funding. In these NIH grant ...

Nikki A. Levin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. Note: The author reported no actual or potential ...

Dermatitis. 2007;18(2):63-77. Experts have suggested including at least 20 human controls when testing with nonstandardized antigens. The ideal negative control is a patient with a recent history ...

In April, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a comprehensive treatment guideline for treating adults who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Titled "The Practice Guideline for ...

There is a general consensus among clinicians that a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level ≥4.0 ng/ml is predictive of prostate cancer, and necessitates a biopsy. But there is a dearth of ...

Unlike unfractionated heparin (UFH), the low-molecular-weight heparin enoxaparin (Lovenox) is excreted mainly by the kidneys. To determine whether this characteristic heightens bleeding risk in ...

Herbs are biologically active plants that have been proved to have adverse as well as beneficial effects when administered for medicinal purposes. Plants can be toxic, known to many people who ...

Maximum plasma concentrations of carvedilol occur 1-2 hours after oral administration. [9] Absolute bioavailability of carvedilol is approximately 23% due to extensive first-pass metabolism.

Treatment of PID should take into account the short-term goals of clinical and microbiological cure and the long-term goals of prevention of infertility, ectopic pregnancy, recurrent infection and ...

Dopamine is an inotropic agent that has vasodilatory effects at low doses. It is a common belief that low-dose dopamine may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of acute renal failure and is ...