The case of the disappearing liver disease
Uncovering an ordinary antibiotic’s secret power
It was the type of case that makes doctors feel helpless.
The 15-year-old boy’s lab tests indicated his liver function was badly impaired. He had a double whammy of two serious gastrointestinal diseases, both lacking cures. On top of it all, his colon was infected with an aggressive bacterial strain, Clostridium difficile.
Although pediatric gastroenterologist Kenneth Cox, MD, had little to offer for the teen’s other problems, he could at least treat the infection. He prescribed the antibiotic vancomycin....
Compelling, right? The article is available online in the new magazine; Standford Medicine.
You can read more about the magazine here;
New Stanford Medicine magazine explores bioethics
By Rosanne Spector
What's bioethics? It's a field that didn't exist 40 years ago but is central to today's world of medicine. It's a field that looks for answers to medicine's virtually unanswerable ethical quandaries. And it's the topic of the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, which just went online.....Continue Reading....
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