Four clinical variables — the presence of fever, elevated pulse rate, crackles on auscultation, and low oxygen saturation — can help identify patients with pneumonia in the primary care setting, ...

To test the hypothesis that heart rate characteristic (HRC) monitoring adds information to clinical signs of illness in diagnosing neonatal sepsis, we prospectively recorded clinical data and the HRC ...

Researchers have found a link between age of diagnosis and various clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). The ...

The major signs and symptoms of hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) arise as a consequence of hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypercalciuria and renal insufficiency. Hypocalcemia is associated with ...

While many would rather not think about when someone might die, knowing how much longer a seriously ill person has left to live can be very useful for managing how they spend their final days.

For every 100 American adults, 34 show symptoms of anxiety, depression or both 20 have symptoms of both anxiety and depressive disorders 10 show symptoms of anxiety alone 4 show symptoms of depression ...

Black mood, won’t get out of bed, an obsession with Fall Out Boy — everyone knows what depression looks like, right? Wrong. According to researchers, the symptoms of clinical depression, especially in ...

Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a serious complication of cancer chemotherapy that can lead to delays in treatment and necessary dose reductions of chemotherapy, which compromise treatment efficacy.

Malone Mukwende is a second year medical student at St George's University in London. He noticed he was only taught about clinical signs and symptoms on white skin and decided to create 'Mind the Gap' ...

Geographic atrophy (GA) is a late stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) associated with severe and irreversible, but gradual visual impairment. In its early stages, GA typically affects the ...