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MKSAP: 52-year-old man with fatigue and fever
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 52-year-old man is admitted to the hospital with fatigue and fever of 3 days’ duration. He is a health care worker and has a bicuspid aortic valve. He takes no medications. Blood cultures are obtained at the time of admission, and he is started on empiric vancomycin for possible endocarditis. On hospital day 2, his initial blood cultures become positive for gram-positive cocci in clusters, and on hospital day 3, his blood cultures grow methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Susceptibility to vancomy...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs

FungiDB 2.3 released with 52 genomes
The latest release of FungiDB (2.3) is now live and includes 52 genomes, 11 of which are new for this release. This was a longer than expected release cycle due to reintegration with the EuPathDB software team. Programmers Raghu Ramamurthy and Edward Liaw at UC Riverside did nearly all the Fungal specific work, collaborating closely with the EuPathDB team who provided many site-specific corrections and assistance in running the workflow. This is a joint collaborative project between the UCR,Oregon State (FungiDB) and U Penn, Univ of Georgia (EuPathDB) and the work in this release was funded through grants from th...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - June 3, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: database fungi news fungidb release Source Type: blogs

Top medicine articles for April-May 2013
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles in medicine for April-May 2013: Antibiotics for COPD exacerbations: Further Evidence of Benefit http://buff.ly/WOANHG Diet does not work: substituting dietary linoleic acid in place of saturated fats increased the rates of death - BMJ http://buff.ly/WOAZH5 The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 1930–1953 (illustrated review) http://1.usa.gov/VcuA7W via @Skepticscalpel Nearsighted kids may get worse in winter http://trib.in/VcvmC1 -- Myopia progression seem to decrease in periods with longer days and to increase in periods with shorter days. Children should ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - May 22, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Health News of the Day Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update — 04-01-2013
This case report is entirely bizarre. Patient gets awarded more than $800,000 after visit to doctor resulted in incorrect diagnosis of cancer when the patient really had pneumonia and caused patient to have amputation of her foot. A trial was held on the case four years ago with a verdict in favor of the doctor, but the judge declared a mistrial because Washington State jurors were referring to the plaintiff’s Japanese attorney as “Mr. Miyagi” and were making other racist comments against him. Then, the article notes that the doctor had been disciplined by state regulators for making “erroneous diagnoses” and for...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - April 1, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

Gram Positive Cockeye vs Cocci Explained.
Here's a letter I wrote to the National Academy of Nursing Vocabulary last week regarding my concerns about an epidemic of gram positive cockeye sweeping our hospitals. You think the flu was bad this year? You think C diff is bad. You have no idea how aggressive the cockeye has been. Dear Academy, I have been a practicing hospitalist now for ten years. I want to commend your organization's mission to improve nursing vocabulary. Helping nurses achieve proficiency in medical terminology is important for doctor-nurse and nurse-nurse communication of critical patient information. Quite obvi...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - February 1, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs

Announcing FungiDB 2.1 release
On behalf of the FungiDB development team I am pleased to announce the release of FungiDB 2.1 which includes 39 Fungal genomes from Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Mucormycotina (Zygomycota) and 6 genomes of Oomycetes. This release builds on the 2.0 release from August to include 6 additional species, RNA-Seq from a population of Neurospora strains, growth time points in 3 fungi Coprinopsis, Neurospora, and Rhizopus, and Phytophthora species. The 6 new genomes include Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Coprinopsis cinereus, Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidioides posadasii, Rhizopus delemar (formerly oryzae), and Ustil...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - November 13, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: database fungi methods eupathdb fungidb genome database releases Source Type: blogs