Yeast Researchers Consider Hailey–Hailey Disease

Researchers consider value-of-information theory for selecting trials.

O ncology faces a dilemma with newer cancer drugs that are both too expensive and not effective enough, according to critics. Now some researchers and economists say that there’s a way to address that problem while drugs are still in the pipeline. Called value-of-information (VOI) theory, it can be used when deciding which clinical trials to fund, according to Larry Baker, D.O., a professor of ...

Recurrent pleuritis: consider IgG4-related systemic disease.

What do primary care physicians and researchers consider the most important patient safety improvement strategies?

BACKGROUND Although it has been increasingly recognised that patient safety in primary care is important, little is known about the feasibility and effectiveness of different strategies to improve patient safety in primary care. In this study, we aimed to identify the most important strategies by consulting an international panel of primary care physicians and researchers. METHODS A web-based...

Consider Behcet's disease in young patients with deep vein thrombosis

Behcet's disease is a multi-systemic and chronic inflammatory vasculitis of unknown etiology characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, uveitis, arthritis, arterial aneurysms, venous thrombosis, skin lesions and GIS lesions. Although pulmonary artery aneurysms are rare, it is a critical condition due to high risk of rupture. Venous involvement of Behcet's disease primarily occurs in th...

Recurrent Inflammatory Flares in HIV-Infected Patients: Consider Castleman Disease!

Background. Transient inflammatory flares are common in clinical care of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. In-depth investigations are not performed routinely because patients often recover without therapeutic interventions, and therefore, the etiologies of these inflammatory flares frequently remain unknown. Case. We report a case of an HIV-infected patient with recurrent i...