Day: July 3, 2012

Rates of community-onset and hospital-onset MRSA bacteremia have decreased in parallel. However, the proportion of community-onset skin and soft tissue infections due to MRSA have only recently declined, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medicl…

Patients taking antiepileptic drugs are up to four times more likely to suffer spine, collarbone and ankle fractures — and more likely to have been diagnosed with osteoporosis, according to research published in Neurology. The authors also found patients were…

A recent study showed that pain remains common in hospitalized children, despite a concentrated focus on improving pain management over the past decade. Two hundred medical and surgical patients ranging in age from 7 days to 21 years admitted to…