This study compares the analgesic properties of intrathecal and intravenous sufentanil in postoperative pain relief. Is there a significant difference in efficacy? Southern Medical Journal
Healthy volunteers who took pantoprazole for 4 weeks had dyspeptic symptoms when they stopped, probably from rebound secretion of gastric acid, according to a Swedish study. Reuters Health Information
A preoperative requirement for vasopressors and mental status changes are among the risk factors for death in patients who have undergone colectomy for fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis, the results of a study at a teaching hospital suggest. Reuters Health Information
Researchers from Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, announced here this week that chronic hepatitis C virus infection appears to be a risk factor for primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Reuters Health Information
Bret Lashner, MD, explores current and emerging issues in nonbiologic strategies for inflammatory bowel disease, as based on key data presented during DDW 2008. Medscape Gastroenterology
