ACC: Folate Supplements Cut Strokes in Hypertension Hypertensive patients with low blood folate levels gain big benefit. Mar 19, 2015 video
Future of Dermatology on Display at AAD Program to reflect challenges to practice, scientific advances. Mar 19, 2015
The Case for Body Cameras: Good for Doctors -- and Their Patients Why one doctor wants to see a camera added to a clinician's equipment checklist. Mar 16, 2015
I, Intern: A Critical Problem in the ICU One intern wants to close the gap between evidence and practice. Mar 11, 2015
Frankie the Dog Fetches - and Finds Thyroid Cancer? Canine trained in cancer scent detection gives few false positives in early test. Mar 10, 2015
CardioBreak: Modern Bloodletting, a New Statin Strategy Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine. Mar 09, 2015
Prediabetes Patients Have Fewer Gut Bugs A change for the worse apparent in the intestinal microbiome. Mar 08, 2015 video
All About Adenosine This biochemical will stop your heart -- just long enough to be useful. Mar 08, 2015
Gross Anatomy: Rare Alga Growth From Human Tissue Sample The culture was negative, so what's all this green stuff? Mar 06, 2015
Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After Ƶ Profile Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay). Mar 05, 2015
The Medium Is The Message: Second Study Confirms Mediums' Accuracy A journal publishes another paper reporting that officially certified mediums are accurate. Mar 04, 2015
Seeds Top EBRT as Boost Tx in Prostate Cancer And other advances in prostate cancer care from the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Mar 03, 2015
Male Med Students: More Resolute, More Fallible Gender differences seen in trainees' confidence, knowledge. Mar 03, 2015
Citing Risks, FDA Calls for Label Changes to T Therapy Agency requires warning on heart attacks, strokes with testosterone replacement. Mar 03, 2015
Hey Doc, How Does My Penis Measure Up? Here's a Graph. A not particularly useful guide to size. Mar 03, 2015
The NNT: An Overhyped and Confusing Statistic Some pitfalls of summing up evidence with Numbers Needed to Treat. Mar 02, 2015
Ultrasound After Steroid Shots Helps Slightly in Managing Knee OA Changes visualized after intra-articular injections are small and of borderline utility. Feb 27, 2015
Reversing Abortion Pill: Can It Be Done? A new group of anti-abortion physicians may have "the antidote" for RU-486. Feb 24, 2015
Endo Apps: How to Get Useful Glucose Meter Data There are several options for downloading and interpreting important data from diabetes patients. Feb 24, 2015
HDAC Inhibitor OK'd for Multiple Myeloma Panobinostat targets histone deacetylases; first of its kind to win approval in myeloma. Feb 23, 2015
Morning Break: Penis Reduction? Patient Suffering Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the Ƶ staff. Feb 18, 2015
Delays, Anesthesia Impact Endovascular Thrombectomy Stent retriever trial analyses reinforce "time is brain" and argue against general anesthesia. Feb 16, 2015
Mixed Results for Low-Dose Statin in Second Stroke Pravastatin didn't reduce incidence of recurrent stroke, but did offer other benefits. Feb 16, 2015
Stroke Survivors May Face Greater Cancer Risk Ischemic stroke increased likelihood of cancer within 2 years of the event. Feb 14, 2015
Concierge Medicine Firm Found Liable for Doctor's Negligence Believed to be the first-ever judgment against a concierge organization. Feb 13, 2015
Stop DMARDs Before Orthopedic Surgery in RA Patients? Deft medication management is important. Feb 12, 2015
Bronchiolitis Guidelines: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater? AAP's new guidelines favor complexity over familiar treatment options. Feb 11, 2015
Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life. Feb 10, 2015 video
Frostbite: How to Classify and Treat It In the ED, this is most often seen in the homeless. Feb 09, 2015
Dr. Maiden Name Will See You Now Medical students give their last names a lot of thought. Feb 02, 2015
Hard Drinking in Middle Age Linked to Stroke F. Perry Wilson, MD, critiques an interesting new study in 150 seconds. Jan 30, 2015 video
Diabetes: Is This Tattoo Worth a 1,000 Needle Pricks? UCSD researchers report early results on a tattoo to measure blood sugar. Jan 27, 2015 video
Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes? Jan 23, 2015
Survival Boost from NP/PA Care in ICU? Association seen versus resident physicians in small study. Jan 22, 2015
Cosentyx Gets FDA Nod for Psoriasis Anti-IL17 drug secukinumab OK'd for moderate-to-severe disease. Jan 21, 2015
More Nurses May Mean Fewer Deaths in ICU High patient to nurse ratios may lead to more errors and fatal outcomes. Jan 21, 2015
When Docs Sue Their Own Hospital At issue: who has authority to hire, fire, and discipline staff physicians. Jan 19, 2015
