Oct 25, 2016

Studies show that acute appendicitis accounts for more than 11% of pediatric ED admissions, and more than 70,000 children in the United States are hospitalized for it each year. Appendectomy is curati...

Oct 24, 2016

Chronic low back pain is a highly prevalent and disabling musculoskeletal pain condition, especially among older adults. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a treatment option for th...

Oct 20, 2016

Assessing Early Discontinuation of Opiates After Trauma The inappropriate use of prescription opiates  is a significant public health issue throughout the United States, but little is known about ...

Oct 20, 2016

More than half a million patients who had open-heart surgery in the United States in the past several years could be at risk for a deadly bacterial infection linked to a device used during their oper...

Oct 19, 2016

Your dear friend has had pain in her left hip for the past decade, and it has only gotten worse. Her films show severe osteoarthritis, even though she had joint resurfacing just a few years ago. This ...

Oct 07, 2016

From our content partners at Physicians Practice   When you love your job, it can be easy for your work/life balance to get out of whack. Here are some lessons I’ve learned so far: Sp...

Oct 05, 2016

Domestic violence encompasses a wide variety of maltreatment, including neglect, abandonment, and emotional, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. The problem remains a significant healthcare burden thr...

Oct 03, 2016

Congratulations to Andrea Moreira, MD, for being the recipient of “Heroes in Medicine” honors from Physician’s Weekly. Dr. Moreira, a board-certified plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, foc...

Sep 23, 2016

According to current estimates, the number of prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United States quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, and this increase occurred in parallel with prescription opioid...

Sep 09, 2016

A recent Accenture report found that patients in the United States are increasingly accessing their electronic health records (EHRs), with rates rising from 27% in 2014 to 45% in 2016. Most patients (...

Sep 06, 2016

Pop Quiz: What were you doing during the financial presentation at your last board meeting? A. Texting your spouse B. Checking email C. Stepping out to make a call D. All of the above T...

Sep 06, 2016

Due to the busy nature of many medical practices, planning for future events like physician succession or retirement often takes a back seat to other pressing priorities. However, planning for these c...

Aug 31, 2016

In a study of children with brain shunts at Children’s of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the current “gold standard” test for detecting bac...

Aug 31, 2016

According to current estimates, prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer. About 220,800 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the United State...

Aug 31, 2016

According to current estimates, more than 350,000 people experience sudden cardiac death in the United States each year. Patients with low ejection fraction (EF) are at risk for sudden cardiac death, ...

Aug 29, 2016

Recent research has shown that Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a growing cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and is associated with longer hospital lengths of stay (LOS) and...

Aug 26, 2016

Regardless of the setting that a physician practices, there is a high likelihood that they will encounter difficult patients throughout their career. “We can’t blame all of these difficult encount...

Aug 23, 2016

Who is still paying off student loans? Who has suffered loss due to practice issues? Here are the highlights from Medscape's Physician Debt and Net Worth Report 2016. According to the Association o...

Aug 19, 2016

After an investigational medication is subject to clinical trials but before it is permitted to be used widely in patients, the FDA reviews the clinical trial results to ensure that the drug’s poten...

Aug 01, 2016

In a first-of-its-kind prospective multicenter trial, researchers monitored graft-derived cell-free DNA in the blood of 106 adult liver transplant recipients for at least one year post trans...