DBS for Parkinson Disease: Does Age Matter?
Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic progressive condition that most commonly affects the elderly....
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Author: Janine Anthes
ED Physician Perceptions of Diagnostic Imaging
In the United States, studies have shown that test-ordering rates vary considerably throughout...
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Early Rehab in ICUs
Starting rehabilitation early during an ICU stay can improve patient outcomes after they leave the...
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Non-Obstructive CAD & Heart Attack Risks
Non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) is atherosclerotic coronary artery plaques that do...
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Conference Highlights: ESC 2015
New research was presented at ESC 2015, the European Society of Cardiology’s annual congress, from...
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You Can Grow New Brain Cells. Here’s How – VIDEO
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she...
Read MoreWill Medicare’s Published Physician Quality Data Push Your Patients Away?
By: Theresa Hush, CEO & Co-Founder, ICLOPS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t be the only group scrutinizing your quality and cost data anymore. As the next step toward value-based healthcare, Medicare...
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More than 35 Leading U.S. Health Organizations Launch Campaign to Improve Obesity Care
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — More than 35 leading U.S. healthcare organizations...
Read MoreEMR Buzz Kill
The call from the ED awakened me at 2:15 on a Monday morning. I wasn’t on call, but an Internist who regularly sends me patients had specifically requested me when his patient needed a surgical consultation. His patient was a...
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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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Pediatric Flexible Airway Endoscopy: New Standards
Flexible airway endoscopy (FAE) is well accepted and widely used to manage children with known or...
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Diabetes in American Indians
The American Heart Association (AHA) has implemented 2020 goals for promiting cardiovascular...
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Alzheimer’s is Not Normal Aging & We Can Cure It – VIDEO
More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is...
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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...
Read MoreED Revisits & Mortality After Falls
Researchers in Boston indicate that more than one-third of older adult ED fall patients appear to revisit the ED revisit within 1 year and are at greater risk of death. Among patients who were an average age of 78.6 years old,...
Read MoreTrends in Syncope-Related Resource Utilization
The amount of resources used for ED visits with syncope appears to have increased in recent years despite substantial efforts to optimize this utilization, according to a study. Between 2001 and 2010, admission rates ranged from...
Read MorePatient Perspectives on Acute Pain Management in the ED
Patients discharged from an urban ED after presenting with acute pain from fractures, renal colic, or musculoskeletal back injuries appear to receive little communication from ED providers regarding opioid dependence or...
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