Conference Highlights: ACS 2016
Assessing Early Discontinuation of Opiates After Trauma The inappropriate use of prescription...
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Hospital Medicine
More than half a million heart surgery patients at risk of deadly infection
More than half a million patients who had open-heart surgery in the United States in the past...
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Conference Highlights: ACEP16
Clinical Decision Support Reduces High-Cost Imaging Prior research has shown that brain, cervical...
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Analyzing Artificial Cervical Disc Replacement
Your dear friend has had pain in her left hip for the past decade, and it has only gotten worse....
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Maximum human lifespan has already been reached
A study published online today in Nature by Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists...
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Looking for Work/Life Balance
From our content partners at Physicians Practice When you love your job, it can be easy for...
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Disclosing Your Own Errors: How, When & Why
So, do you have to tell a patient if you make an error in their care and, if so, under what...
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A Strategy for Decreasing Influenza’s Impact
Research indicates that about 60% of influenza-related hospitalizations occur in adults aged 65...
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Domestic Violence Among Trauma Patients
Domestic violence encompasses a wide variety of maltreatment, including neglect, abandonment, and...
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No one knows how many patients are dying from superbug infections in California hospitals
Many thousands of Californians are dying every year from infections they caught while in...
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CDC Whistleblower Claims Agency has been Using Wrong Zika Test
In the midst of the fight to control Zika, the top public health agency in the United States has...
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A 25-year-old’s Answer to Antibiotic Resistance
Could this be the end of superbugs? A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight...
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UTI testing technology cuts screening time to four hours
Researchers using DNA sequencing to profile antibiotic resistance in infection have achieved a...
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Ancient Remedy Becomes Novel Approach to Treating Clostridium Difficile Infection
Modern medicine is taking a new look at an ancient remedy for severe diarrhea as a novel approach...
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The Impact of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
According to current estimates, the number of prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United...
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Surveying OTC Drug Use Perceptions
According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, about 100 million Americans suffer from...
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Superbug crisis: World leaders meet as threat grows
It is only the fourth time the general assembly has held a high-level meeting for a health issue....
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Repurposed deworming drugs & C. Difficile epidemic
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potential new weapon against...
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Is burnout inevitable during medical training?
An emergency medicine resident blogging on KevinMD, thinks so. Here’s why. He started with the...
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Molecules released by Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium pave the way for invasive infection
It’s been known that the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae secretes small molecules called...
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