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email article A personalized, hands-on care strategy for patients struggling with addiction was effective at reducing hospital readmission, a randomized trial found. In a comparison of hospitalized adults with substance use disorder involving opioids, cocaine, or alcohol, those who received Navigation Services to Avoid Rehospitalization (NavSTAR) care saw far better outcomes than those who simply received treatment as usual, according to Jan Gryczynski, PhD, of the Friends Research Institute in Baltimore, and colleagues. Patients who received this elevated care saw 26% lower rates of in...

Dear Dietitian:I seem to get three or four bladder infections every year. My friend told me to try cranberry supplements. Do they work?Thank you,MeredithDe

Dear Dietitian: I seem to get three or four bladder infections every year. My friend told me to try cranberry supplements. Do they work?

Grand Rounds is a monthly blog series developed by EMS World and FlightBridgeED that will feature top EMS medical directors exploring the intricacies of critical care in EMS practice. In this installment FlightBridgeED Chief Medical Officer Jeffrey Jarvis, MD, PM, reviews the drug ketorolac. Unless you’ve been very committed to keeping your head in the sand, you’ve probably noticed we’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Though there is little evidence that the one or two doses of IV opioid medications EMS might give for acute pain contribute to opioid misuse, there are other reasons...

Shionogi's Novel Antibiotic, Fetcroja (cefiderocol), Has Been Selected by UK's NICE / NHSE&I as Part of an Antimicrobial Subscription Style Reimbursement Model Enterobacterales and non-fermenting species such as P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii, and S. maltophilia, makes them difficult to treat and results in high mortality rates. 7,8 The World Health Organization have identified carbapenem-resistant strains of Enterobacterales, A. baumannii as the top priority in the research and development of new antibiotics. 9 Cefiderocol is the first antibiotic to address all three major mechanisms of car...