Parkinson's is debilitating for patients and presents daily treatment challenges. Learn the basics of this disease, along with guides for patients and their caregivers on medication and maintaining mobility.

A U.S. influenza pandemic will require tough ethical choices on production and distribution of vaccine. Obstructions to vaccine production are discussed, along with U.S. government tiers of vaccination priority; the ethics of compulsory healthcare-worker flu vaccination are also reviewed.

Our guide to recognizing, diagnosing, and treating your patients' most common headache complaints. Symptoms and causes are listed for tension-type, cluster, and migraine headaches; and treatments are broken down by nonpharmacologic therapies, common preventive drugs, and typical abortive drugs by type of headache.

Learn the frequency, symptoms, pathogenesis, and differential diagnoses of endometriosis, including its staging, and treatment options available to women, both pharmacological and surgical.

Article describes six wound categories, their causes and complications, and treatment, including guidance on choosing and applying the right dressing. Lower-extremity ulcers are categorized by type, location, and predisposing factors, with recommendations for wound care and closure.

With increased use of serotonergic drugs for depression, serotonin syndrome is rising. Learn its causes and symptoms, and use our takeaway lists of high-risk serotonergic drugs in your practice.

Amid rising mortality and morbidity rates, this article provides an overview of asthma symptoms, ethnic predisposition, drug management, and patient education to control and minimize future exacerbations.

Lysosomal storage diseases are rare and incurable genetic disorders that interfere with enzyme production to varying, sometimes fatal, degrees of severity. Article discusses detection of these disorders, their physiological effects, and the enzyme replacement therapies and strategies RNs can employ to ease symptoms.

A review of heart failure caused by systolic dysfunction, including review of signs and symptoms, classifying severity, pharmaceutical courses, and assisting patients with risk management and lifestyle changes to improve prognosis.