In 2003, the Youth Behavior Risk Survey reported that 46.7% of high school students had been sexually active.[1] In 2000, 9.1 million of the 18.9 million new cases of STDs came from young people age 15-24.[2] Although the ...

Census data published by professional organizations indicate an upward trend in the number of physician assistants (PAs) working in many specialty fields, including the subspecialty of trauma surgery. As the role of ...

As the number of ACL surgeries performed each year rise, giving patients a detailed look at their options for replacement is critical. To accomplish this, the best alternative of allograft or autograft, needs to be identified. ...

Endometriosis is a disease of the female reproductive system in which endometrial tissue exists outside of the uterus and is found attached to other organs. Although both laparoscopic ablation and gonadotropin-releasing ...

Medical education programs are using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) to facilitate the recording of encounters between students and patients during clinical rotations. Wichita State University Physician Assistant ...

Acute and chronic pain are common conditions practitioners continually face in diagnosing and treating patients. The use of prescribing opioids in chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) patients is controversial due to fear of ...

Traditionally, family practice physicians have personally managed the care of their hospitalized patients. The changing healthcare marketplace, however, is stimulating changes in primary care physician practice. One ...

Several studies have shown that a large number of healthcare workers have negative attitudes toward persons infected with HIV early in the epidemic, but a more positive shift has occurred in these attitudes over the last ...

In 2002 the Surviving Sepsis Campaign was established by an international consortium of healthcare providers as a collaborative effort to reduce mortality from the life-threatening conditions of severe sepsis and septic ...