One Man’s Journey into the World of Breast Cancer – The Steve Del Gardo Story
It all started in April 2012, when, after taking a shower, I felt a small lump in my left pectoral...
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Author: Janine Anthes
A Guideline on Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults
Postoperative delirium is the most common neurologic surgical complication among older patients,...
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DBS for Parkinson Disease: Does Age Matter?
Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic progressive condition that most commonly affects the elderly....
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ED Physician Perceptions of Diagnostic Imaging
In the United States, studies have shown that test-ordering rates vary considerably throughout...
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Early Rehab in ICUs
Starting rehabilitation early during an ICU stay can improve patient outcomes after they leave the...
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Non-Obstructive CAD & Heart Attack Risks
Non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) is atherosclerotic coronary artery plaques that do...
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Conference Highlights: ESC 2015
New research was presented at ESC 2015, the European Society of Cardiology’s annual congress, from...
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You Can Grow New Brain Cells. Here’s How – VIDEO
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she...
Read MoreWill Medicare’s Published Physician Quality Data Push Your Patients Away?
By: Theresa Hush, CEO & Co-Founder, ICLOPS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t be the only group scrutinizing your quality and cost data anymore. As the next step toward value-based healthcare, Medicare...
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More than 35 Leading U.S. Health Organizations Launch Campaign to Improve Obesity Care
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — More than 35 leading U.S. healthcare organizations...
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EMR Buzz Kill
The call from the ED awakened me at 2:15 on a Monday morning. I wasn’t on call, but an Internist...
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Curing Diseases with a Cell – Video
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease. Take pill. Kill something....
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Doctor Curmudgeon® : “I Flunked the ICD-10 Test”
By Doctor Curmudgeon® How could this be? I took this stupid test that I had to take for...
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Persistent Pain in Older Patients
For older Americans, persistent pain is highly prevalent and costly to manage. Persistent pain...
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Pediatric Flexible Airway Endoscopy: New Standards
Flexible airway endoscopy (FAE) is well accepted and widely used to manage children with known or...
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Diabetes in American Indians
The American Heart Association (AHA) has implemented 2020 goals for promiting cardiovascular...
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Alzheimer’s is Not Normal Aging & We Can Cure It – VIDEO
More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is...
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Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care
According to the most recent estimates, more than 29 million Americans—or slightly more than 9% of...
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Opioid Abuse & Mortality Trends
Over the past two decades, research has shown that rates of abuse and diversion of opioid...
Read MoreED Revisits & Mortality After Falls
Researchers in Boston indicate that more than one-third of older adult ED fall patients appear to revisit the ED revisit within 1 year and are at greater risk of death. Among patients who were an average age of 78.6 years old,...
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