Hey Doc, How Does My Penis Measure Up? Here's a Graph. A not particularly useful guide to size. Mar 03, 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
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
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
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
Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life. Feb 10, 2015 video
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
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
CRC Regimens Give Survival Bump in Second Line Ramucirumab trial meets primary endpoint; famitinib offers respectable disease control rate. Jan 18, 2015 video
5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise. Jan 14, 2015
Onglyza OK in Renal Patients No increase in cardiovascular events seen in renally impaired SAVOR patients. Jan 14, 2015
More Drugs, Better Survival in Metastatic Colon Cancer Addition of oxaliplatin to FOLFIRI and bevacizumab doubled 5-year survival. Jan 13, 2015
Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists She shouldn't be allowed to say no when the benefits are so clear-cut, they say. Jan 13, 2015
The Five Best Apps for Echocardiography Echocardiography is a frequently used tool in the evaluation of a wide range of cardiac diseases. Jan 13, 2015
CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don’t Take Heart Meds Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do? Jan 08, 2015
Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5 Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Jan 08, 2015
Reclast May Protect Bone by Reversing Marrow Fat Early zoledronic acid reverses bone marrow adipogenesis during estrogen deficiency. Jan 07, 2015
Diclegis: Drug Makes 30-Year Comeback Class A morning sickness medication gains FDA approval after decades of being misunderstood. Jan 04, 2015
Meniscus Lesions Tied to Neuropathic Pain in Knee OA Meniscal extrusion on MRI significantly associated with increasing pain scores in knee osteoarthritis. Jan 02, 2015
Early and Late Mortality Spikes in Giant Cell Arteritis Danish study reveals 10-year survival patterns. Dec 29, 2014
Do You Hear the (Heart) Beat of These Dancing Feet? If you thought electrophysiologists are boring, think again. Ditto Icelanders. Dec 28, 2014 video
Gut Hormone May Up Dehydration Risk in T2D Endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 appears to inhibit fluid intake. Dec 28, 2014
Separating Spondyloarthritis From Back Pain Still Problematic Spinal MRI criteria don't help differentiate SpA from nonspecific pain. Dec 27, 2014
JIA Parents Lose Significant Work Time More missed work in the year before and after a child's diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Dec 18, 2014
FDA Launches Compounding Advisory Committee The 14 committee members come from a variety of disciplines. Dec 18, 2014
Antibodies Predict Scleroderma Renal Crisis Antibody test aids assessing risk for this potentially lethal complication. Dec 17, 2014
The Best Family Medicine Apps Physicians Should Download Dr. Douglas Maurer, one of our family medicine physician writers at iMedicalApps, has created a great list of apps that are essential for family medicine physicians to download. Dec 16, 2014
Painful Hands, Hurting Hearts? Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis was linked with coronary heart disease. Dec 15, 2014
Cannabis for Child Seizures: Popular, But Is It Effective? Thus far, only parent reports and open-label trials for support. Dec 10, 2014
Opioid Linked to Low Blood Sugar Tramadol was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia. Dec 09, 2014