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For patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty

AAOS: Formal Physical Tx Doesn’t Up Outcomes in Hip Surgery

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No improvement in postoperative outcomes compared with prescribed exercise program
Two investigational vaccines for Ebola virus disease are well-tolerated and immunogenic

Two Investigational Vaccines Show Promise for Ebola

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Two vaccine candidates are well-tolerated and immunogenic in adult volunteers
For patients with chronic low back pain of discogenic origin

AAPM: Intradiscal Biacuplasty Improves Outcomes in LBP

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Clinically superior mean outcome measures with IDB and conservative medical management
If current HIV rates continue

CDC: One in Two Black Men Who Have Sex With Men May Get HIV

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New national report highlights groups most at risk for the AIDS-causing virus
A monthly vaginal ring containing dapivirine can reduce the incidence of HIV-1 infection

Reduced HIV-1 Infection Incidence With Vaginal Ring

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Monthly vaginal ring containing dapivirine reduces risk of HIV-1 infection among African women
Many Ebola survivors have neurological symptoms that last long after other signs of the infection are gone

AAN: Ebola May Leave Lasting Neurological Symptoms

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Six months after active illness, headaches, memory loss, depression were still being reported
Among adults undergoing cardiac surgery

SCCM: Peri-Op Statins Don’t Cut Risk of AKI in Cardiac Surgery

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Study was stopped for futility after 615 participants completed study
The period prevalence of acute respiratory distress syndrome is 10.4 percent in intensive care unit admissions

SCCM: Prevalence of ARDS 10.4 Percent in ICU Admissions

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome seems to be underrecognized, especially in mild cases
New definitions and criteria for sepsis and septic shock have been published online Feb. 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 45th Critical Care Congress

SCCM: New Definitions, Criteria Developed for Sepsis

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New criteria identify adult patients likely to have poor outcomes typical of sepsis
Most patients with thrombocytopenia have circulating histones

SCCM: Circulating Histones for Most With Thrombocytopenia

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Circulating histones for 91 percent of patients with thrombocytopenia, 55 percent of controls