Elective Major Orthopedic Surgery in Octogenarians

Mar 31, 2015

By 2030, patients aged 85 and older are projected to account for 2.3% of the United States...

Should You Wear a Hazmat Suit When Operating an Elevator?

Mar 30, 2015

In their quest to culture every object on planet Earth, researchers have found that hospital elevator buttons are more contaminated with bacteria than restroom surfaces. Of 120 randomly cultured elevator buttons, 73 (61%) grew...

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

Mar 26, 2015

My friend Nick, the ER doctor, called me the other day to tell me that one of my patients had died...

Doctors Make Mistakes – Video

Mar 25, 2015

Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine’s culture of denial...

My War with the Anti-Vaxxers

Mar 23, 2015

In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, infectious diseases killed many. In fact, in the...

Distracting Electronic Devices Don’t Affect Learning. Really?

Mar 23, 2015

After listening to a lecture, third-year dental students at Harvard were surveyed about distractions by electronic devices and given a 12-question quiz. Although 65% of the students admitted to having been distracted by emails,...

Controlling HIV Without Medication

Mar 23, 2015

Research indicates that about 1% of patients with HIV are able to keep the infection under control...

Organ Donation in the ED

Mar 23, 2015

Emergency physicians (EPs) are at the forefront of efforts to save patients or preserve options...

A Look at Pregnancy-Related Attrition in General Surgery

Mar 23, 2015

Studies show that attrition from general surgery programs is high, even with the introduction of...

SCCM 2015

Mar 23, 2015

New research was presented at SCCM 2015, the Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care...

CROI 2015

Mar 23, 2015

New research was presented at CROI 2015, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic...

Cardiovascular Care for Hispanic Americans

Mar 23, 2015

According to current estimates, more than 53 million Hispanics live in the United States,...

Hip Fracture in Older Adults

Mar 23, 2015

As life expectancy continues to increase in the United States, the number of elderly people and...

Analyzing Statin Use

Mar 23, 2015

Recently, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA)...

Keeping Cancer Survivors Healthy

Mar 23, 2015

For more than 15 years, the “Eight Ways to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer” message campaign has...

Diabetic Kidney Disease: Coming to a Consensus

Mar 23, 2015

As the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes have grown, there has also been an increase in...

CIPN: A Guide for Prevention & Management

Mar 23, 2015

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common treatment-related adverse effect...

Managing the High Costs of Diabetes Care

Mar 20, 2015

The adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and rules imposed by insurers for scheduling and...

Contracts

Mar 19, 2015

The hospital where I do much of my elective surgery recently terminated the contract it had with a...

Pregnancy-Related Deaths Rising in the U.S.

Mar 16, 2015

To a physician, any disease-related death is one too many. But death is a certainty of life; and...

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