Managing Difficult Patients
Regardless of the setting that a physician practices, there is a high likelihood that they will...
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Hospital Medicine
Donor Fecal Transplant More Effective Than From Self
The results of a study analyzing the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a...
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Physician Debt & Compensation: Where Does Your Specialty Fall?
Who is still paying off student loans? Who has suffered loss due to practice issues? Here are the...
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Eliminating Screening Barriers for HCV
Approximately 3.9 million Americans are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV),...
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Opioid-Induced Constipation in Cancer Patients
Cancer patients who receive opioid therapy for the management of persistent pain commonly...
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Analyzing “Breakthrough Therapy” Perceptions
After an investigational medication is subject to clinical trials but before it is permitted to be...
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New maths to predict dangerous hospital epidemics
Mathematicians are now developing completely new statistical calculations on the world’s...
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U.S. Opens Door to a Change in Blood Donation Policy for Gay Men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door to a change in its blood donor deferral...
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Study: Overdiagnosing Infections in Ambulatory Care
Fleming-Dutra and colleagues analyzed cross-sectional data from the Centers for Disease Control...
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U.S. News 2016-2017 Best Hospitals Released
Who ranks #1 in the Honor Roll—and also in the top 3 in almost every specialty? Nearly 5,000...
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Is there difference in surgical site infection using sterile vs. nonsterile gloves?
Outpatient cutaneous surgical procedures are common and surgical gloves are standard practice to...
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Antibiotic resistance: Skin infection prevention treatment helps battle ‘superbugs’
Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom have discovered a pioneering...
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How to prevent dependency when patients first receive opioids
Clinicians should think twice when prescribing opioid medication to patients for the first time to...
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Long-Term Trends in AMI Rehospitalization
Coronary heart disease (CHD) continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the...
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AACC 2016: New Blood Test Could Help Prevent Organ Transplant Rejection
In a first-of-its-kind prospective multicenter trial, researchers monitored graft-derived...
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A new, epidemic strain of C. difficile is proving alarmingly deadly – here’s why
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine not only explains why but also...
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Gas Mix-Up Causes Newborn Death
In mid-July, a baby born by cesarean section died about one hour later due to the administration...
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An Update on Preventing CVD in Diabetes
Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is the most common cause...
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Conference Highlights: AAIC 2016
New research was presented at AAIC 2016, the annual Alzheimer’s Association International...
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Shocker: Hospitalists’ “Unprofessional” Behavior Is Normal
By their own admission, medical hospitalists are guilty of many types of unprofessional behavior,...
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