Chlorhexidine bathing every other day still does the trick, but it may come at a cost

Chlorhexidine gluconate bathing: does it decrease hospital-acquired infections?

As pay for performance becomes more prevalent, hospitals struggle to improve processes, especially those for preventing hospitalacquired infections (HAIs). Many hospital programs seek out evidence-based “best practices” to keep patients safe from deadly and costly HAIs. Critical care nurses have begun examining even the most rudimentary tasks, such as bathing patients, and the processes inheren...

Amitriptyline: still efficacious, but at what cost?

The Case for Every-Other-Day Dialysis.

Until daily dialysis becomes widely available, we believe that hemodialysis patients would benefit enormously from every-other-day dialysis (EODD), which may be implemented both by home patients and in centers. Benefits of EODD over the routine, three-times-weekly schedule would include decreased mortality after the weekend interval without dialysis; increased weekly dose of dialysis, resulting...

"But still, it moves".

A striking example of our sensitivity to dynamic information is our ability to infer motion from still images depicted in paintings, photographs or cartoons. What are the neural mechanisms that mediate this implied motion perception? In a recent paper, Krekelberg et al. demonstrate that form cues that imply motion are integrated with real motion information, and influence perception in both hum...

Ocean acidification may increase calcification rates, but at a cost.

Ocean acidification is the lowering of pH in the oceans as a result of increasing uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is entering the oceans at a greater rate than ever before, reducing the ocean's natural buffering capacity and lowering pH. Previous work on the biological consequences of ocean acidification has suggested that calcification and metabolic processes are compromis...