Divalproex is available as 125, 250 and 500mg tablets. Therefore, the possible divalproex total daily dosage regimens are in increments of 125mg. Table IV shows that all divalproex dosage regimens ...

The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is an organizing framework for improving chronic illness care and an excellent tool for improving care at both the individual and population level. The model is based ...

Simply defined, a cystocele is a protrusion of the bladder into the vagina due to defects in pelvic support (Fig. 1). The radiographic definition of a cystocele is descent of the bladder base ...

The right of adolescents to access confidential health care is sensitive and controversial. Recent challenges in the court system to adolescents' right to access abortion and contraception are ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Deborah Flapan came to Medscape from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), where she worked on the JAMA Information Center Web sites. Before that, she was managing editor of ...

Objective: To compare the 24-hour sustained efficacy and safety of a new tramadol once-daily formulation (tramadol OAD) using Contramid ® controlled-release technology with a marketed twice-daily ...

Pamela J. Mccabe, PH.D., R.N.; Susan A. Barnason, PH.D., R.N.; Julia Houfek, PH.D., R.N. The association between stronger beliefs that the illness is caused by ...

Joaquim M.B. Pinheiro, MD, MPH, David A. Clark, MD, Kathleen G. Benjamin, RNC, MSN, NNP Echevarria Ybarguengoitia, using bililabstix to prospectively evaluate occult ...

New-onset paranoid symptoms are common among older individuals. They can signify an acute mental status change owing to medical illness, correspond to behavioural and psychological symptoms of ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(1):81-96. In summary, for empiric treatment of infections of the CNS following surgery and prophylactic antibiotics for trauma (Table 2) based on consensus ...

A New Pacemaker Algorithm for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: Results of the Atrial Dynamic Overdrive Pacing Trial (ADOPT) Electrophysiologic Characteristics of the Spontaneous Onset and ...