Nov 21, 2017

Nearly half of U.S. adults now have high blood pressure, thanks to a new definition of what constitutes high: 130/80 is the new 140/90. That means that 103 million people — about 14% more than under...

Nov 21, 2017

Statins are among the most widely studied, successful medications in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease including stroke, myocardial infarction, and peripheral vascular disease. Sa...

Nov 20, 2017

Discharging PE Patients from the ED Evidence indicates that EDs are overcrowded, that length of stay is of major concern, and that decreasing hospital admissions is good for patients. For a study, ...

Nov 20, 2017

Aortic infection is a rare, but severe condition. Primary infection with Coxiella burnetii bacteria in patients with chronic Q fever is notorious in the southern part of The Netherlands. Leaving the i...

Nov 17, 2017

Join us Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00pm ET for PART II of our live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, based on her blog post on why doctors are losing the public's trust. Joining us as a c...

Nov 16, 2017

The MIT team, working with researchers in Germany, found that in both mice and humans, a high-salt diet shrinks the population of a certain type of beneficial bacteria. As a result, pro-inflammatory i...

Nov 07, 2017

By using single cell RNA Seq, an emerging technique that combines microfluidic nanoliter droplet reactors with single cell barcoding and next generation sequencing, the researchers were able to examin...

Nov 07, 2017

Diabetes costs the U.S. economy over $245 billion per year, making it the country’s most expensive disease. But the damage obviously extends well beyond dollars and cents. It’s the 3rd most deadly...

Nov 06, 2017

For over 20 years, efforts to stop or reverse soaring rates of obesity in the United States have failed. In fact, the obesity epidemic is now a global issue. My colleagues and I hypothesized that the ...

Nov 02, 2017

Physician’s Weekly, along with Greg Wells, PhD, co-hosted the second part of the #PWChat series on how to help patients make sense of all the exercise-related information found online and elsewhe...

Oct 28, 2017

By Andy Skean, Senior Editor, Physician's Weekly Contracting shingles, a reactivation of the chickenpox virus, increases a person's risk of stroke and heart attack, according to a research letter p...

Oct 27, 2017

Join us Wednesday, November 1 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD, on how to help patients make sense of all the exercise-related information found online and elsewhere...

Oct 26, 2017

Physician's Weekly, along with ShereeseM, MS/MBA,‏ hosted another #PWChat on Wednesday, Sept. 13 that focused on physician assistants and nurse practitioners and, more importantly, how to incorpora...

Oct 26, 2017

Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host Part II in our #PWChat series, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources when it comes to pseudosci...

Oct 25, 2017

A risk assessment system developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows which patients, with a certain type of streptococcal bacteria in the blood, need to be examined for a heart valve i...

Oct 25, 2017

Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type of insurance they have dictates which hospitals they must use, which specialists they’re allowed to s...

Oct 20, 2017

Physician’s Weekly, along with Barbara Cox, PhD, co-hosted an informative discussion on how mindset affects physical health. The topics discussed included examples of how the mind affects physical h...

Oct 05, 2017

Physician’s Weekly, along with Greg Wells, PhD, co-hosted the first part of a #PWChat on how to help patients make sense of all the exercise-related information found online and elsewhere. The d...

Oct 05, 2017

Join us Wednesday, October 11 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Barbara Cox, PhD, on how mindset affects physical health. Topics to be discussed are subject to change but will likely...

Oct 04, 2017

I’m a surgical resident in training and PhD-candidate in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands. The Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, a level 1 trauma center with a large neurosur...