Using the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education and the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study compared saving motives between Chinese and American urban households. Results showed that, ...

Mobile technology has added another avenue of nosocomial infection and these devices are increasingly being used by hospitalists, patients, visitors and other health care workers. Hospitalists should lead the effort to ...

"In the Clinic" from annals on UTIs.

Ever wonder what type of culture or test to order to diagnose an infection? Well, the IDSA haspublished guidelines which are arranged by anatomical site, with lots of tables that tell you what culture, Smear, PCR or serologic ...

A number of national groups have gotten together and issued new guidelines for the management of severe sepsis and septic shock, led by our former Pulmonary and Critical Care division director Phillip Dellinger.

Timely, affordable primary care is increasingly inaccessible for many patients, especially for the growing population of those disenfranchised by the health care system; these individuals have increasingly relied on Emergency ...

Citation of article in JAMA: Whitley, Richard, A 70 year old woman with shingles. Review of Herpes Zoster.

Imaging by atomic force microscopy (AFM) offers high-resolution descriptions of many biological systems; however, regardless of resolution, conclusions drawn from AFM images are only as robust as the analysis leading to ...

We report the case of a 38 year-old previously healthy Burmese man who presented with abdominal pain, headache, myalgia, and back pain. He was found to have leukocytosis, transaminitis, hyperbilirubinemia, and evidence of ...