Brooks Cash, MD, provides an overview of our current understanding of the physiology of the GI tract with a view toward how that understanding may be applied to the treatment of chronic constipation. Medscape Gastroenterology
Even 1 year off-treatment, linear growth has not recovered in children younger than 16 years of age given peginterferon alfa for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Medscape Medical News
Adding behavioral training to drug therapy may reduce urinary incontinence frequency during active treatment and improve patient satisfaction but not the ability to discontinue drug therapy. Medscape Medical News
Organized medicine finds itself in a showdown with the National Rifle Association over a Florida law that prohibits clinicians from asking patients about gun ownership. br / iMedscape Medical News/i