Recovery from Joint Replacement: Chances are good you know someone who has undergone hip replacement surgery – one of the…
Prosthetic joint infections (PJI) of the hip and knee are uncommon, but result in significant morbidity and mortality when they…
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell disorder, characterized by bone marrow infiltration with clonal plasma cells, production of monoclonal…
Central Lines: Recognizing, Preventing & Troubleshooting Complications TO PROMOTE positive outcomes, clinicians caring for patients with central lines must monitor…
Administration of chemotherapy agents can give rise to many safety issues. Extravasation of a vesicant agent causes tissue blistering and…
Troponin and Cardiac Events in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes Cardiac troponin concentrations are used to identify patients who…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US, found that a protein called vinculin is responsible for…
As a child growing up in a fairly remote village, I followed my mum a couple of times to the…
It's a basic principle of immunology: When a germ invades, the body adapts to that particular target and destroys it.…
Blood hormone tests predicted a woman's risk for developing postmenopausal breast cancer for up to 20 years, according to data…