Advertisement
The American Red Cross on Wednesday asked potential blood donors who have traveled to areas where Zika infection is active to wait 28 days before giving blood.

Blood Donors at Risk for Zika Infection Asked to Hold Off

0
American Red Cross asks potential donors who have traveled to affected areas to wait 28 days
Business operations data represent a relatively untapped resource for optimizing practice revenue

Seven Tips Provided for Optimizing Practice Revenue

0
7 measures identified that demonstrate performance, can indicate opportunities for improvement
Routine use of amoxicillin does not improve nutritional recovery from uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in children

Routine Amoxicillin Use of No Benefit in Acute Malnutrition

0
No difference versus placebo for nutritional recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition
A mobile phone application that provides personalized feedback to patients with type 2 diabetes can increase adherence to physical activity and improve glycemic control

App Can Up Adherence to Exercise in Diabetes

0
Personalized feedback via reinforcement learning improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetes
Simplification

Patient-Centered System Recommended for Medical Billing

0
Simplification, consolidation, and real-time cost information could improve medical billing system
For patients undergoing drug-eluting stent placement

High Rate of Clopidogrel Non-Adherence After DES Placement

0
Based on one-year refill data, 34 percent of patients had proportion of days covered <80 percent
Video games can play a role in medical education

Video Games Offer Educational Methods for Med Students

0
Medical students can test their skills and have the freedom to fail and learn from mistakes as gamers
Characteristics of individuals and health care systems may contribute to the differences in follow-up after a positive fecal blood test

Better Follow-Up Needed After Positive Fecal Blood Tests

0
Median time to colonoscopy ranged from about six weeks to six months
Imaging studies suggest that the development of β-amyloid plaques in individuals with traumatic brain injury may be related to the presence of axonal damage

Axonal Injury in Brain Trauma Tied to β-Amyloid Burden

0
Imaging shows pattern of β-amyloid plaques that overlaps but differs from that of Alzheimer's disease
The incidence of primary chronic immune thrombocytopenia (cITP) is 2.30/100

Infection Risk Up Before Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia

0
Increased risk of infections requiring inpatient, outpatient care within five years before cITP dx