Lyme Disease Information

The number of annually reported cases of Lyme Disease in the United States has increased about 25-fold since reporting began in 1982.

Closing In on Source of Avalon Beach Waste

Beaches reopened again Wednesday morning after being closed three out of the previous four days .

Magnesium sulfate may help prevent cerebral palsy

An infusion of magnesium sulfate given to pregnant women at risk for delivering prematurely may help prevent cerebral palsy in their offspring, suggest results of a study published in The New England Journal of ...

Common Treatment to Delay Labor Decreases Preterm Infants' Risk for Cerebral Palsy

Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham obstetrician Dwight ...

Avalon Beaches Closed Again, Then Reopened

For the third time in four days, officials in Avalon closed beaches on Tuesday as more medical waste washed ashore.

D.C. Hopes Needle Exchanges Curb Soaring AIDS Rate

Reggie Jackson spends much of his day inside a Winnebago, riding through the city's hard-scrabble neighborhoods to hand out clean syringes in exchange for dirty ones.

Phase III Clinical Trial For ADENTRI(R) For Acute Decompensated Heart ...

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology Biogen Idec announced the initiation of a Phase III clinical trial of intravenous ADENTRI , an adenosine A1 receptor antagonist, ...

Intravenous haldol in the ICU

This has come up on our recent P&T meeting. We use a fair amount of IV haldol in the ICU even though haldol is not FDA-approved for IV use .

[Research Letters] In-Hospital Stroke Treated With Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator

From the Departments of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Ramn y Cajal , Hospital Universitario Clnico San Carlos , Hospital Universitario La Paz , and Hospital Universitario Gregorio Maran , Madrid, Spain.

Biogen's Heart Drug Aimed at Renal Patients Enters Phase III

Biogen Idec Inc. enrolled the first subject in its Phase III trial of injectable Adentri, which is being tested in a group that is considered particularly hard to treat: patients with worsening heart failure ...