Jul 11, 2017

Every 21 seconds someone in the United States calls Poison Control because of a medication error. A new study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Central Ohio Poison Center at Natio...

Jul 10, 2017

Heater-cooler devices used during cardiothoracic surgeries and other surgical procedures to warm or cool a patient have been linked with infections from bacteria called M. chimaera, a species of Nontu...

Jun 30, 2017

Previous research has shown that a significant proportion of patients who present to the hospital with a ventral hernia have modifiable risk factors, such as obesity, poor fitness, smoking, and poorly...

Jun 29, 2017

Throughout the past few decades, studies indicate that the inclusion of women in clinical trials has improved marginally, but there is still a need for better representation of women in research. “T...

Jun 27, 2017

Previous research has shown that hospitalized patients who experience an acute kidney injury (AKI) have higher in-hospital mortality rates, are more susceptible to adverse long-term outcomes, and accr...

Jun 26, 2017

Unintentional overdose involving opioids has become a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. “Notwithstanding, several interventions promoted to address opioid-related morbidity...

Jun 23, 2017

Research has shown that maintaining a sterile field in the operating room (OR) is crucial to achieving successful outcomes in joint arthroplasty. Most ORs are fitted with systems that keep them at an ...

Jun 09, 2017

Republicans are trying to cut health care spending. But hacking away at Medicaid, weakening coverage requirements and replacing Obamacare’s subsidies with a convoluted tax credit will not deal with...

Jun 07, 2017

If left untreated, about half of bypass vein grafts become occluded within 10 years of surgery. “Both statins and aspirin carry class I indications from the American College of Cardiology and the Am...

Jun 07, 2017

Join us Wednesday, July 12 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Jeff Segal, MD, on defensive medicine, associated costs, and how to avoid both, inspired by his op-ed piece T...

Jun 05, 2017

Several years ago, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an expert consensus statement on best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) to prov...

Jun 01, 2017

Tucked into President Trump’s 2018 budget are several provisions to tackle medical malpractice reform, an effort to slash healthcare costs by seeking to impact the everyday practice of defensive med...

Jun 01, 2017

Join us Wednesday, June 21 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on the drivers of increasing healthcare costs in the U.S. Topics to be discussed include: ...

May 30, 2017

Throughout the United States, the chronic use of opioids continues to be a substantial burden to the healthcare system in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economic costs. Studies show that the U.S. ...

May 28, 2017

  Hope for Patients Suffering with Chronic Rhinosinusitis For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), every day can mean dealing with headaches, pain, facial pressure, and severe nasal ...

May 24, 2017

Studies have shown that playing music in the operating room (OR) while performing surgery can benefit operative staff by improving their levels of physiologic stress and enhancing operative performanc...

May 16, 2017

A Weekend Effect for PCI? Few large-scale studies have assessed whether or not PCI procedures conducted during the weekend result in worse outcomes than procedures performed on weekdays. Nearly 1.3 m...

May 15, 2017

Bariatric surgery has become one of the most effective interventions for inducing weight loss among obese patients. Several operations are available for patients considering bariatric surgery, includi...

May 11, 2017

With America facing an opioid epidemic, the most effective diagnostic tool for uncovering misuse and abuse of opiates remains the urine-drug testing that numerous businesses and physicians rely on. ...

May 10, 2017

According to data from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), heart failure (HF) is a common but often unrecognized and misdiagnosed condition that affects nearly 6 million Americans. HF is the ...