While nail biting is a recurrent habit with many people, popularly perceived as a sign of nervousness, a US-based doctor has warned it can even be fatal. According to Dr Christabel Akinola, biting ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27(7):647-648. From the beginning, the scientific basis for recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis was not well established. The evidence supporting prophylaxis ...

Tongue scraping has become the latest trend with widespread acceptance in the realm of oral health, being touted as an easy method to get rid of bad breath by effectively eliminating the bacterial ...

How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic prophylaxis ...

A 54-year-old healthy woman was diagnosed with a rare case of infective endocarditis after developing an acute ischemic stroke five weeks after having a tooth extracted. The case report was published ...

Infectious endocarditis (IE) represents a severe medical condition marked by infectious inflammation of the heart's inner ...