#PWChat Recap: The Drivers of Increasing Healthcare Costs
Physician’s Weekly and Dr. Linda Girgis hosted their continuing #PWChat series on Wednesday, June...
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Hospital Medicine
Enhancing Cardiac Rehabilitation
National guidelines recommend that patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) be referred to...
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Researchers Develop Game Changing Strategy for Pain Relief
Researchers from Monash University have developed a new drug delivery strategy able to block pain...
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Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
When medications are ineffective, catheter-based ablation has become a treatment of choice for...
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The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine
Republicans are trying to cut health care spending. But hacking away at Medicaid, weakening...
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TweetChat: Defensive Medicine, Associated Costs & How to Avoid Both
Join us Wednesday, July 12 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Jeff...
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Conference Highlights: ASM Microbe 2017
The Veterans Aging Cohort Study, Alcohol Use, & HIV The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS)...
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Heart Failure Patients Readmitted to the Same Hospital May Have Better Outcomes
When patients with heart failure were re-hospitalized within a month, those who returned to the...
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Cooling Down the Body May Reduce Brain Injury for People in a Coma
Cooling down the body may reduce brain injury for people in a coma after being revived from...
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Nonadherence to medications: Who’s to blame?
No foundations or patient advocate groups are promoting awareness of nonadherence. There are no...
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Traditional Tort Reform Won’t Reduce Healthcare Costs
Tucked into President Trump’s 2018 budget are several provisions to tackle medical malpractice...
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Tuberculosis Vaccine Passes Important Milestone
Investigators at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine announced that two new studies of...
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TweetChat: A Look at the Drivers of Increasing Healthcare Costs
Join us Wednesday, June 21 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda...
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In-Office, Minimally-Invasive Procedures for Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Hope for Patients Suffering with Chronic Rhinosinusitis For patients with chronic...
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Conference Highlights: ATS 2017
Mortality & Respiratory Failure Timing Few studies have assessed whether patients’ outcomes...
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What Parents Need to do with Their Children’s Leftover Pain Medicine
Throughout the United States, the rates of prescription pain drug addiction and death continue to...
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Mortality Rates at Teaching Hospitals Lower Compared with Non-Teaching Hospitals
Patients admitted to major teaching hospitals are less likely to die compared with patients...
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Encouraging Smoking Cessation After AMI
Research shows that smoking is common among many patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI)...
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The Sound of Safety: Preferences and Perceptions of Music in the Operating Room
Studies have shown that playing music in the operating room (OR) while performing surgery can...
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Cardiac Rehab Benefits Older Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients
Despite national guidelines strongly supporting the use of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients...
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