Internal Medicine

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved the Fenix Continence Restoration System for the treatment of fecal incontinence for patients who have tried and failed other medical and surgical options.

In the changing landscape of hospital medicine one of the largest areas of focus has been on readmission rates, this is also true for patients who are discharged from one hospital and then readmitted into another location for further treatment.

Four types of gut microbiota acquired in infancy may protect babies from developing asthma, according to findings published in Science Translational Medicine.

Seniors who developed the painful rash commonly known as shingles may also be at higher risk of suffering a stroke or heart attack.

From cardiologists to physical therapists to nurses there is a team approach needed to provide cardiac patients the care they need for treatment. Keeping that care going even after a cardiac event has passed has been a growing focus of the field in recent years.

Francisco Sylvester, MD, UNC School of medicine emphasized the importance of applying study findings to early interventions in treatment.

Russell Cohen, MD, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center at The University of Chicago Medicine continued to discuss the relevance of healthcare economics specific to IBD at the 2015 Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Christine Cserti-Gazdewich, BSc, MD, Blood Transfusion Laboratory, Toronto General Hospital, and colleagues wanted to address the burgeoning concern that the longer blood units are stored, the likelier it may be to introduce harm or simply not work as well.

Treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is significantly more expensive when treated in secondary care settings than it is when treated in primary care settings -- without a corresponding increase in treatment effectiveness.

In the history of military medicine amputation has been a common practice through the years. As technology has developed work has been done to see whether limbs that might have otherwise been amputated in the past can in fact be salvaged in some way going forward.

Located in San Antonio Brooke Army Medical Center has undergone considerable changes since opening nearly 20 years ago. Those changes have meant better care not only for their local patients but also service members who are sent there from all over the world on a daily basis.

Hepatologists around the world are seeing an influx of patients with various liver conditions including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Finding ways to treat these patients has become a growing area of the field. These issues are the same whether doctors are treating military patients or those in civilian practice alike.

It has become unnecessary for dermatologists to request monthly lab tests for patients administered standard doses of isotretinoin for the treatment of severe acne.

For patients with seasonal allergies the prescription medications available may not be enough to help with their symptoms and shots may not be an option they want to consider. Newly developed sublingual immunotherapies have been developed to help these patients manage their daily lives.

Ethnographic study findings indicate that safe spaces represent a promising but so far under-utilized part of community-based HIV prevention infrastructure.

The severity of nail and scalp psoriasis was significantly reduced in patients who received twice-daily treatment with Otezla (apremilast, Celgene).