Health Insurance Coverage & Diabetes Status
About 2 million adults under age 65 with diabetes had no health insurance in 2009, according to a...
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Articles
Patient Satisfaction Surveys Are Bogus
Patient satisfaction surveys are flawed in many ways. Here are just a few: 1. Sampling is a huge problem. A description of why sampling is an issue can be found here. It’s a bit complex. To summarize, the validity of a survey is...
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FDA Approves Fulyzaq, First Anti-Diarrheal Drug for HIV/AIDS Patients
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Fulyzaq (crofelemer) to relieve symptoms of...
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FDA Approves Sirturo for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
First drug to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis On Dec. 28, the U.S. Food and Drug...
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Exercise Testing After PCI
Recurrent ischemia and cardiac events are common after PCI and CABG, signifying that coronary...
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FDA Approves Eliquis Anti-Clotting Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the anti-clotting drug Eliquis (apixaban), an...
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Disparities Persist for Rural Cancer Survivors
An analysis from Wake Forest University suggests that cancer survivors living in rural areas of...
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Examining Serious Cardiac Arrhythmias After Stroke
A German study team has found that significant cardiac arrhythmias following an acute...
Read MoreEnhancing Consultations in the ED
In EDs nationwide, consultations between emergency physicians (EPs) and other doctors or specialists for advice or intervention regarding patient care occur on a daily basis. Emergency medicine (EM) consultation is an important...
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Bedside Tool Helps Predict Outcomes After Stroke
A clinical prediction rule for death and severe disability after acute ischemic stroke— derived...
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Candidemia: Incidence & Antifungal Drug Resistance
During the past 20 years, adults aged 65 and older appear to have replaced infants as having the...
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Updating Osteoarthritis Treatment Recommendations
To help clinicians manage the increasing number of patients with osteoarthritis (OA), the American...
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Managing Thromboembolism in Pregnancy
Thromboembolism is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. The...
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CVD Risk Factors & PAD
Smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes appear to be the cardiovascular...
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Aspirin, Tumor Mutations, & Colorectal Cancer Survival
Among patients with mutated-PIK3CA colorectal cancer, regular aspirin use after their diagnosis...
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Higher Calcium Intake Fights Off Hyperparathyroidism in Women
Increasing calcium intake in women appears to reduce the risk of hyperparathyroidism, according to...
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Lipid Levels Improving Nationwide
Lipid levels among adults in the United States appear to have improved between 1988 and 2010,...
Read MoreDo EMRs Make Documentation Too Easy?
There are many interesting unintended consequences of electronic medical records (EMRs). I was reminded of this by a recent blog I wrote about what interns really do when they are on call. According to a study from a VA hospital...
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FDA Approves Juxtapid for Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia
On Dec. 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Juxtapid (lomitapide) to reduce...
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FDA Approves Varizig for Reducing Chickenpox Symptoms
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Varizig for reducing the severity of chicken...
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