For suspected community-acquired pneumonia, performing chest x-ray as a first-line test, and to a lesser extent CRP testing as a first-line test, significantly reduces antibiotic use.

A person develops latent TB when he or she contracts Mycobacterium tuberculosis yet his or her immune system manages to control the infection.

After my house jobs, I did a year in oncology with the late Sir Kenneth Calman, who trained initially as a surgeon and ...

Hospital emergency rooms are built for just that: emergencies. Broken bones, heart attacks, motor vehicle accidents and ...

Hospital emergency rooms are built for just that: emergencies. But every now and again, someone comes racing in and causes a ...

As air quality index (AQI) levels increase, breathlessness has become the new normal, often blamed on seasonal smog. In cities where a thick grey canopy has become part of the permanent skyline, a ...

A 16-year-old white girl was referred to the retina clinic by her pediatric ophthalmologist for evaluation of a worsening unilateral central scotoma with colorful edges in the setting of new ...

Does the patient have pneumonia or is the clinical picture due to some other problem? What is the microbial etiology of pneumonia? Where should the patient be treated? What is the best therapeutic ...

Tuberculosis remains a major global health threat, and symptom-based case detection fails to interrupt community transmission.1 Nearly half of tuberculosis cases are missed by current strategies, and ...

Enhertu approved in Japan as first tumour agnostic HER2 directed medicine for previously treated patients with HER2 positive metastatic solid tumours: Tokyo Tuesday, March 24, 202 ...

A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that medical malpractice by a Connecticut cardiologist led to the death of her 32-year-old husband. Samuel Alejandro, Jr. went into cardiac arrest ...

Should you worry about these children’s health issues? - GP Dr Nighat Arif outlines common health problems that concern ...