#PWChat – Convincing Antivaxxers: Winning the Vaccine Argument With Patients
Join us Wednesday, August 30 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda...
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Infectious Disease
8 ways to prevent denials at your physician’s practice
By Michelle Crawley Ask a physician about their biggest pain points when it comes to the...
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Guidance on Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis & Meningitis
Healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis (HAVM) is not an uncommon problem in clinical...
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New Handheld Spectral Analyzer Uses Smartphone to Detect Disease
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that...
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Age, Race, & Gender Differences in Pneumococcal Disease
Several studies have assessed gender differences in susceptibility to a variety of infectious...
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Smoking Cessation & Life Expectancy in HIV
Current estimates show that more than 40% of people with HIV in the United States smoke...
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Burnout: Gain Financial Independence & Retire Early
by Alex Kilian Over seven years have passed since the Affordable Care Act was officially...
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Is Outpatient Care Quality Improving Over Time?
More than a decade ago, landmark studies found that adults in the United States only received...
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Money can’t buy drug adherence
In June I asked, “Who’s to blame?” for patients not taking their medications and cited a couple of...
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Are doctors wimps? Hippocrates & Maimonides walk into a bar…
I was growling. Stacks of papers desecrated my desk. The EMR was giving me trouble. I began to...
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Doctor and Patient Relationships: Empathy & Litigation
Research has shown that emergency physicians (EPs) with better interpersonal skills and who spend...
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How has United Airlines done since the doctor was manhandled?
Three months ago I blogged about the doctor who was dragged off a United plane in Chicago...
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An unusual cause of shoulder pain
A woman in Montréal underwent a total hysterectomy for ovarian cancer back in March, and...
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The Paradigm Shifts Needed in Healthcare
There’s a lot wrong with healthcare today. Especially the medications they have now a days and all...
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Nurse’s Drug Diversion Causes Infection Outbreak at Wisconsin Hospital
Opioid diversion led to an outbreak of Serratia marcescens at a Wisconsin hospital, researchers...
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Body Parts on a Chip
It’s relatively easy to imagine a new medicine — the hard part is testing it, and that...
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The Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows
Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even...
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15 Books Every Healthcare Professional Should Read
by Emily Walters Do you want to offer your patients better care, increase your own industry...
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Youth Tobacco Product Use, Including E-Cigarettes, Drops During 2015-2016
The number of middle and high school students who say they are current tobacco users – defined as...
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Flu Shot Less Effective for Obese Adults
Although influenza vaccines are currently the best forms of protection to safeguard people against...
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