Vomiting/Nausea in the ED? Consider Haloperidol, Study Suggests In randomized trial, half doses of haloperidol outperformed ondansetron, an old standby Oct 05, 2022
Women Doctors More Likely to Be Called by First Name in Patient Portal Messages Primary care and DO physicians also more likely to be greeted informally in EMR messages Oct 05, 2022
Concurrent LAA Occlusion Loses Its Appeal for LVAD Surgeons Heart pump placement plus anticoagulation suffice for patients, even those with Afib Oct 05, 2022
Sexual Violence Takes a Toll on Teens' Mental Health Even experiences of unwelcome sexual approach can have a lasting negative impact Oct 04, 2022
Physicians: Get a Mentor or a Coach? There might be more than one solution to take your career to the next level Oct 04, 2022
Doctor Fact-Checks 'The Simpsons' Medical Scenes Dr. Mike breaks down Homer's gastric bypass surgery, and more Oct 04, 2022
Can Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Reduce Dementia Risk? DREAM study findings conflict with other recent data Oct 04, 2022
The Search Is On for Another Xeno Heart Transplant Recipient Transplant surgeons discuss testing the concept in more humans Oct 04, 2022
FDA's Power Morcellator Warning Tied to Drop in Distant Leiomyosarcomas Local and regional illness remained unchanged Oct 04, 2022
Combo Therapy Shows Promise in Advanced Thymic Epithelial Tumors "Clinically remarkable outcomes" with PD-L1 inhibitor plus anti-angiogenesis agent Oct 04, 2022
Supply Issues a Major Challenge to Polio Vaccination Programs As the world moves from eradication to containment, will vaccine incentives increase? Oct 04, 2022
Experts Grapple With New Reality: Polio May Never Be Eradicated Oral polio vaccine has diminished paralysis, but it's also a reason the virus keeps circulating Oct 04, 2022
It's Time to Embrace Opioid Addiction Meds in the ED, Experts Say Buprenorphine is a must in overdose cases, according to two emergency physicians Oct 04, 2022
Some Environmental Pollutants Linked to IBS PM2.5, airborne toxic releases associated with zip code-level IBS incidence in California Oct 04, 2022
How Air Pollution Can Trigger NSCLC in Never-Smokers Study is "a big call-out for us to fight for improved air quality," says Nicholas Rohs, MD Oct 04, 2022 video
Pandemic Led to Surgical Delays in Gynecologic Cancers, and Worse Outcomes One in five patients experienced changes in their care plan Oct 04, 2022
Clopidogrel Recall; COAPT Score; Pediatric Cardiologist's Child Porn Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Oct 04, 2022
Anti-VEGF Conjugate Gets a Win in Retinal Vein Occlusion Tarcocimab noninferior to aflibercept while cutting treatment burden in half Oct 04, 2022
What Drug Laws Are in the Inflation Reduction Act? The Answer Might Surprise You It's not just about negotiating drug prices in Medicare Oct 04, 2022
Surgery Plus Stent Slows Glaucoma Progression Better Than Surgery Alone Five-year follow-up shows significantly less annual visual field progression with the stent Oct 04, 2022
Healthcare at the Margins Toyin Ajayi, MD, on how social inequities limit access to proper care Oct 04, 2022 podcast
What Killed the First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic in the U.S.? Powerful people, prejudice, and politics, according to a review of its history Oct 03, 2022
SABR for Oligometastatic Cancer Turns in 'Acceptable' Rates of Toxicity Rates of grade 2 or higher toxicities less than those observed in landmark SABR-COMET study Oct 03, 2022
SGLT2 Inhibitors, GLP-1 RAs Not Cost-Effective as First-Line T2D Agents Cost-effectiveness study compared lifetime costs with first-line metformin Oct 03, 2022
Adding Chemo Not Better for Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Trial suggests radiation therapy alone remains standard of care for pelvic-only recurrences Oct 03, 2022
Urgency to Expand SGLT2i Use in HF Heightened by More DELIVER Data Analyses continue to support wider adoption of dapagliflozin, researchers say Oct 03, 2022
Just How Bad Was Pandemic Strain on Emergency Wait Times? The Numbers Are In Analysis shows impact on ED boarding times, patients abandoning the wait for care Oct 03, 2022
Traditional Glaucoma Surgery Tops MIGS for Treatment Success Twice as many patients met IOP goals with TIGS, but confounders complicated data analysis Oct 03, 2022
Therapeutic Candidates for Dry AMD Move Closer to Clinical Practice Slowing of geographic atrophy at 1 and 2 years with pegcetacoplan, avacincaptad pegol Oct 03, 2022
UNOS to Revamp Heart Allocation Rules to Rein in Transplant Waitlist Tricks It may be goodbye to priority tiers, hello to points-based ranking system in coming years Oct 03, 2022
Transplant With Orca-T Reduced GVHD in Hematologic Malignancies Risk of relapse was also lower in the group who received the cell therapy Oct 03, 2022
What Caused Left-Sided Hearing Loss in This 65-Year-Old Man? Numerous diagnostic procedures revealed tophaceous gout affecting the middle ear Oct 03, 2022
Emergency Medicine Docs Bemoan Patient Satisfaction Surveys Critics at ACEP call them biased, unfair, and exclusionary Oct 03, 2022
Dementia Diagnosis Linked to Suicide Risk almost seven times higher for people with diagnosis before age 65 Oct 03, 2022
Growing Calls to Marry HF Specialists With Cardiac Critical Care Cardiac ICU staffing issues require a multidisciplinary team approach, some say Oct 02, 2022
Durvalumab-CRT Pairing Disappoints in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Still, CALLA trial findings "will inform future strategies to improve treatment," researcher says Oct 02, 2022
More Emotional Exhaustion; Where to Work for 'Humanizing' Experience Must-reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers Oct 02, 2022
ADC Offers Promising Results in Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma Good response rate with camidanlumab tesirine, although a lot of patients experienced AEs Oct 02, 2022
Higher Dose, Longer Treatment Interval With Aflibercept Shows Promise in Eye Disease Dosing 8 mg every 12 or 16 weeks for DME, AMD matches results with 2 mg every 8 weeks Oct 02, 2022
Rucaparib a Winner for PFS, But Not for OS, in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer PARP inhibitor still has value as maintenance therapy, ARIEL3 investigator says Oct 01, 2022
