May 21, 2018

New research was presented at AACE 2018, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Annual Scientific & Clinical congress, from May 16-20 in Boston. The features below highlight some of...

Mar 13, 2018

By Chris Cole Managing Editor Pros & Cons With Perioperative Beta-Blockers Previous research indicates that perioperative beta-blockade among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who ...

Feb 28, 2018

By Andy Skean, Senior Editor, Physician’s Weekly The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology (ACE) recently published an update to the...

Feb 21, 2018

Clinically significant adverse events associated with procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA)—including critical oxygen desaturation, bradycardia, hypotension and cardiac arrest—are relatively unc...

Feb 08, 2018

We’ve been living in a MACRA world for some time now, and yet most physicians still aren’t ready—or even close to ready—for this new reality. As if physicians weren’t already drowning in ...

Feb 08, 2018

The transformation to value-based care has placed tremendous focus on delivery of care as it relates to improving patient outcomes, quality, and safety. And for good reason; improved discharge protoco...

Feb 08, 2018

Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the reach of their “special sauce.” For some, it’s to launch outpatient centers in the suburbs. For othe...

Feb 08, 2018

The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care for themselves when they have acute problems, such as colds and the flu, and they partner with their...

Jan 29, 2018

The use of robotics in interventional cardiology offers operators the ability to safely and successfully complete percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) while minimizing occupational hazards due to ...

Jan 23, 2018

Do patient outcomes differ between those treated by male and female physicians? In a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers examined nationally representative data o...

Jan 18, 2018

My first exposure to Lean as a quality improvement (QI) approach was at a well-known automotive producer, and it was alarming. The Master Black Belt Sensei flown in from Japan spoke in short, clipped,...

Jan 09, 2018

In 2012, there were estimates of waste in US healthcare amounting to $750 billion per year, or approximately 30% of overall spending. The leading causes of waste are broken out in the Table, with low ...

Jan 08, 2018

We can “scarcely imagine a more exciting time to be engaged in translational research” in cardiology. This is the opinion of the authors of a recent American Heart Association (AHA) 2017 Scientifi...

Dec 22, 2017

By Andy Skean, Senior Editor, Physician’s Weekly   The over-the-counter (OTC) medication aisle can be overwhelming for patients, especially when trying to select from the more than 300,00...

Dec 18, 2017

In addition to being an important health and quality of life issue for men, erectile dysfunction has long been associated with CV disease. Risk factors for erectile dysfunction and CV disease are simi...

Dec 18, 2017

Under the system to provide medical treatment to end-stage heart failure patients, a group that is ineligible for heart transplantation, in response to their requests, Osaka University Hospital gained...

Dec 06, 2017

With the increased focus on patient engagement to improve outcomes, we as clinicians must think hard about the efficacy of an important step in patient engagement: education. As the first step in foll...

Nov 29, 2017

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. Th...

Nov 27, 2017

A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) identifies a signaling pathway that is essential for angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels from pre-e...

Nov 21, 2017

Join us Monday, November 27 at 3:00pm ET / Noon PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with former AACE president, Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FACE, FNLA. Topics to be discussed include: How heart...