PLoS medicine
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Over the last five years, there has been increasing recognition of the global health importance of hookworm. New international efforts to control the morbidity of hookworm are in progress
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Among trauma patients who survive to reach hospital, exsanguination is a common cause of death. Could anti fibrinolytics reduce the death rate? Only a large randomized controlled trial can answer the question
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A 54-year-old man presented with fever, shortness of breath, and left-sided pleuritic chest pain. His bilateral pleural effusions and pericardial effusion turned out to be due to sarcoidosis
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The ability to detect disease outbreaks early is important in order to minimize morbidity and mortality through timely implementation of disease prevention and control measures. Many national, state, and local health departments are launching disease surveillance systems with daily analyses of hospital emergency department visits, ambulance dispatch calls, or pharmacy sales for which population-at-risk information is unavailable or irrelevant. ⋯ If such results hold up over longer study times and in other locations, the space-time permutation scan statistic will be an important tool for local and national health departments that are setting up early disease detection surveillance systems.