This article -- the first in a series on urologic presenting symptoms -- is intended to provide clinicians with a step-by-step guide for assessing patients who present with urinary frequency. Medscape Urology
In a cohort of healthy older men and women, dehydroepiandrosterone was no different from placebo in reducing the risk for cognitive decline. Medscape Medical News
A prospective cohort study shows that children exposed to secondhand smoke at home during early infancy have an increased risk for serious infections requiring hospitalization. Medscape Medical News
Patients who have a relatively low risk of colorectal cancer are more likely to undergo screening colonoscopy than patients with a much higher risk, investigators announced here at Digestive Disease Week 2008. Reuters Health Information
The majority of women with clinically unrecognized anal sphincter tears after the first vaginal delivery, who are not initially symptomatic, do not appear to show any deterioration in continence over the next 10 years, UK researchers report in the May issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Reuters Health Information
Adult ADHD is often complicated by psychiatric comorbidities. What approaches to diagnosis are most accurate? Which treatments work best for patients with ADHD and SUD, bipolar, or anxiety? Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
Drs. Reddy and Martin discuss antiviral drug resistance in HBV; Dr. Reau reports the latest data on HBV from EASL 2008; and Dr. Hassanein and coauthor review issues in the management of hepatitis B. Medscape Gastroenterology