In freshly voided clean-catch urine samples, the presence of ≥ 100 colonies of a single bacterial species with counts ≥ 10⁵ CFU/mL is regarded as a positive urine culture, suggestive of UTI.

In stroke patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), the potential for near-term stroke, the performance of a timely assessment for stroke risk factors, and the initiation of primary and ...

Author: Ricardo R Correa Marquez, MD, EsD, FACP, FACE, FAPCR, CMQ, ABDA, FACHT; Chief Editor: George T Griffing, MD more... Over the past two decades, the field has shifted from descriptive metabolic ...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive and persistent anxiety and worry about multiple events or activities that is difficult to control. The anxiety and worry occur more ...

Patients should be monitored for symptom response, functional improvement, adverse effects of treatment, and changes in suicide risk or psychiatric comorbidity. Inadequate response should prompt ...

In children and adolescents, evaluation should be developmentally appropriate and should incorporate information from the patient and parents or caregivers, with consideration of functioning at home, ...

Povidone-iodine 1.25% ophthalmic solution may be as effective as topical antibiotics, especially in resource-limited settings There is no data supporting the cost-effectiveness of antibiotics for mild ...

The following organizations have released guidelines for the management of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). Key diagnostic and treatment recommendations have been reviewed and integrated ...

Triple therapy Triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection consists of the following: Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) (omeprazole 20 mg BID, lansoprazole 30 mg BID, esomeprazole 40 mg QD, ...

Evidence-based information on benzodiazepine equivalency is limited, and different sources may disagree; hence the use of dose ranges in this table. Even so, the data listed in this table are ...

Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS), also known as deletion 4p syndrome, is a disorder caused by irregularities on the short arm of chromosome 4 (with these irregularities signified as 4p-). It is ...

The Hoehn and Yahr scale is used to describe the symptom progression of Parkinson disease. [1, 2, 3] The scale originally was described in 1967 and included stages 1 through 5. [4] It has since been ...