Manuka honey contains amino acids, B-vitamins, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and zinc. It has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. Besides use in wound infection, it may be useful in treating some GI disorders and sore throats.

The timing of re-initiation of antithrombotic therapy needs to be individualized based on the severity of the bleed, among other factors. This article reviews the issue and offers tools and guidelines for determining if and when to restart antiplatelet and oral anticoagulant therapy.

Because many BP-I patients present with depressive rather than manic symptoms, if a careful evaluation for past manic episodes is missed, it can easily result in an incorrect diagnosis of MDD.

This trial including more than 6,500 patients randomized to empagliflozin or placebo and followed for a median of 2 years. Progression of kidney disease or death from cardiovascular causes was monitored over the course of the trial. Those outcomes occurred in approximately 13% of patients in the empagliflozin group versus approximately 17% of patients in the placebo group.

In addition to stroke, central causes of vertigo include brainstem glioma, medulloblastoma, vestibular schwannoma, and vestibular migraine. Peripheral causes include BPPV, Meniere disease, acute labyrinthitis, vestibular neuritis, and multiple sclerosis.

In a recently published prospective cohort study, a third dose of the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine yielded a sustained immunologic response. But response to a fourth was much smaller and was gone completely by 13 weeks, providing only a short-term benefit over the third dose. A fourth dose should therefore be timed based on disease waves or be provided seasonally, like the influenza vaccine.