Diabetes: How Are We Diagnosing and Initially Managing It?

How well are we managing diabetes in long-term care?

The care received by nursing home residents with diabetes does not meet ADA standards for ambulatory adults, this study finds. Nor should it. The frail elderly need new standards that address their particular needs.

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

Diagnosing schistosomiasis: where are we?

In light of the World Health Organization's initiative to extend schistosomiasis morbidity and mortality control programs by including a disease elimination strategy in low endemic settings, this paper reviews diagnostic tools described during the last decades and provide an overview of ongoing efforts in making an efficient diagnostic tool available worldwide. A literature search on PubMed usi...

Dementia Home Care Resources: How Are We Managing?

With the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with dementia, family caregivers, in-home providers, and case managers in nine dementia care networks to examine the management of dementia hom...

Infective endocarditis: how well are we managing our patients?

Infective endocarditis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S., with an estimated number of 10–15,000 new cases being diagnosed each year (1). Although the number of cases of infective endocarditis occurring as a result of rheumatic disease is diminishing, this reduction in cases has been replaced by an increased incidence of endocarditis among intravenous drug users and ol...