Hybrid quantitative imaging: Will it enter clinical practice?

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?

Statin-Induced Diabetes: Will It Change Clinical Practice?

An increase in the incidence of physician-diagnosed diabetes with rosuvastatin in Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin (JUPITER) published recently revived clinical interest in the effects of statins on glycemic control. The study showed that, after almost 2 years of follow-up in men and women with elevated levels of highsensi...

quantitative dengue test: is it practical for clinical practice?

Why is community-associated MRSA spreading across the world and how will it change clinical practice?

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged in 1960 and over the following 40 years was a problem confined largely to the healthcare setting. In the late 1990s the first US reports of so-called community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections appeared. CA-MRSA infections were defined as MRSA infections occurring in patients who had no identifiable predisposing risk factors, such as ...

Probiotics for preterm neonates: what will it take to change clinical practice?

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a major cause of mortality (25%) and morbidity including recurrent sepsis, dependence on parenteral nutrition, need for surgery, and survival with short bowel syndrome in preterm very low birth weight infants. Mortality (45-100%) and morbidity including the risk of long-term neurodevelopmental impairment are higher in extremely preterm infants needing surgery ...