NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Early immune response signatures in the critically injured may shed light on mechanisms underlying multiple organ system failure, according to U.K. investigators. As Dr. Joanna M. Shepherd of Queen Mary University of London tells Reuters Health by email, “Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is common after major trauma and it contributes to…
On the Road in Rajasthan: Vehicular-Caused Bone, Joint Damage in India
In the good old days, physicians routinely made house calls. The decision to visit the literal bedside of a patient was practical: hospital services were primitive and often offered too little benefit to justify an emergency journey by the patient. These physicians carried leather bags, sometimes called Gladstones, that were filled with instruments for eventualities…
Rheumatologist Dr. Richard Meehan Discusses Tour of Medical Duty in Gulf War, Iraq War
Richard Meehan, MD, can still hear the distinctive sound of footsteps that would travel along a gravel path toward his wooden hut in the middle of the night in Iraq. “I’d hear somebody walk from the command post, either toward my hut or the operations officer who slept in the hut next to mine,” says…