Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2015
New research was presented at IDWeek 2015, the combined annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases...
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Primary Care
Curing Diseases with a Cell – Video
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease. Take pill. Kill something....
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Doctor Curmudgeon® : “I Flunked the ICD-10 Test”
By Doctor Curmudgeon® How could this be? I took this stupid test that I had to take for...
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Persistent Pain in Older Patients
For older Americans, persistent pain is highly prevalent and costly to manage. Persistent pain...
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Diabetes in American Indians
The American Heart Association (AHA) has implemented 2020 goals for promiting cardiovascular...
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Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care
According to the most recent estimates, more than 29 million Americans—or slightly more than 9% of...
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Opioid Abuse & Mortality Trends
Over the past two decades, research has shown that rates of abuse and diversion of opioid...
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No Life Limited by Pain 2015
New research was presented at No Life Limited by Pain 2015, the annual meeting of the American...
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Counseling Young Adults With Hypertension
Published studies show that about 9% of men and 7% of women who fall in the young adult age...
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Unprofessional Medical Staff Behavior
In 2009, the Joint Commission Leadership Standard issued a mandate stating that leaders need to...
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Diabetes Prevalence Continues to Rise
The prevalence of diabetes appears to have increased in the United States and in all subgroups of...
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Resuscitation Training Improves Outcomes
A statewide educational intervention on resuscitation training appears to have increased the...
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Kidney Stone Guidelines
Nephrolithiasis—a condition more commonly known as kidney stones—occurs in about 13% of men and 7%...
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Mass Screening for AF
Swedish research suggests that mass screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients aged 75 or...
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Cardiometabolic Multi-Morbidity & Mortality
Mortality rates per 1,000 person-years appear to be similar among patients with diabetes (15.6),...
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Stroke & Cognitive Decline
Study investigators suggest that incident stroke appears to be associated with an acute decline in...
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Extended Oral Anticoagulation After PE
When managing patients with a first episode of unprovoked pulmonary embolism (PE), a study has...
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Making the Case for Individualized Care Plans
Individualized care plans developed by a multidisciplinary team and integrated into an electronic...
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A Mobile Diabetes Intervention
Evidence is lacking on interventions that are implemented to meet the needs of older adults with...
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IL-10: A New Target for Lipid Abnormalities
Increased interleukin-10 (IL-10) appears to cause severe HDL cholesterol deficiency and raises...
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