Here's Why COVID-19 Mortality Has Dropped There's no single answer, but a host of contributing factors Nov 17, 2020
Post-Surgery Monitoring Finds Afib in Discharged Patients About 20% of patients had episodes recorded on devices, study showed Nov 17, 2020
Washington Hospital Pulls Out of Health System Ahead of Merger Last straw for Yakima Valley docs unhappy with Virginia Mason health system Nov 17, 2020
Novel Screening Approach Promising for Silent CAD More than 40% of healthy Swedish participants still had subclinical coronary artery disease Nov 16, 2020
ANGPTL3 Blocker Halves LDL in High-Risk Group Evinacumab worked in patients refractory to statins, PCSK9 inhibitors Nov 16, 2020
43% Cardiac Arrest Survival? ECMO Strategy Promising in Early Studies Exceeded expectations for outcomes Nov 13, 2020
You're Never Prepared for the Screams Telling people a loved one died is never easy Nov 13, 2020 podcast
So Pro-Life That They Almost Killed a Pregnant Woman A doctor who did a pro-death thing Nov 13, 2020 podcast
Non-Cardiac Surgery Poses 'Sobering' Risks for People With LVADs MACE rate reached as high as 16.9% after some procedures Nov 12, 2020
Patient's Ventricles Removed as Bridge to Heart Transplant Rare therapy a variation of BIVAD support Nov 11, 2020
NY Emergency Docs Sue Insurer for Not Paying Enough Out-of-network physicians charge UnitedHealth conspired to reimburse them at lower rates Nov 09, 2020
What's Wrong With PCI at Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Study probes practices, outcomes at ASCs before Medicare kicked in Nov 09, 2020
Cameras In the Hospital? No Thanks Privacy and trust are more important than surveillance Nov 08, 2020
Doctor And Nurse Play 'Would You Rather' Scrubs vs underwear, dating, and difficult patients Nov 05, 2020
HCA Workers Tell Investors the Company Fails to Protect Them "We are astonished at this" Nov 05, 2020
Newly Legal Edible Cannabis Sparks More ED Visits Seniors, toddlers among those treated for bad trips Nov 02, 2020
Black Doctor Dies After Giving Birth, Underscoring Maternal Mortality Crisis Tragedy shows racial disparities in pregnancy outcomes aren't solely based on access to care Nov 02, 2020
Lung Ultrasound Beats X-Rays in COVID Pneumonia Screening Patients with negative scans typically go home, while positives head to CT Nov 01, 2020
ED Docs: Read This Before Ordering a Urine Sample Hunting for UTIs in patients with no symptoms has downsides, studies suggest Oct 30, 2020
ED Docs: Don't Fear Buprenorphine for Acute Opioid Withdrawal No DEA waiver needed for one-time dosing, ACEP speakers note Oct 30, 2020
Some Hospitals Giving Back CARES Act Funds Not clear if they're returning unspent money or simply repaying loans; reporting discrepancies abound Oct 28, 2020
Initial GI Symptoms Independently Tied to Poor COVID-19 Outcomes Separate study finds diarrhea as a presenting symptom portended worse disease Oct 27, 2020
Physicians Push Back on Trump's Claim of Inflated COVID Deaths Accusations provoke outrage; but president has his believers too Oct 27, 2020
Overwhelmed ER Docs Fear Losing Jobs If They Seek Help Stigma cost NYC physician her life, sister tells ACEP audience Oct 27, 2020
Infectious Disease Docs Get Same Pay for More Work During Pandemic Some survey respondents report negative financial impact Oct 26, 2020
Acute HIV Cases Turn Up in COVID Screening Similar symptoms result in surge in finding new infections at one institution Oct 26, 2020
Newborns Getting Preoperative Blood Transfusions Have More Complications Data favor restrictive transfusion strategy Oct 22, 2020
Marijuana Use Linked to Lower Hospital Mortality in COPD Patients Users also had less pneumonia Oct 21, 2020
COVID Deaths Drop in the Hospitalized; Miracle Mouthwash? New Organ Discovered A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Oct 21, 2020
First COVID-19 Wave Offers ICUs Lessons for Next Time Medication shortages forced hospitals to get creative, but staff shortages still loom large Oct 20, 2020
No Aspirin Post-STEMI Stent; Sapien 3 Stroke Risk; and More It's a TICO-STEMI, SOLVE-TAVI, FLASH, and IREMMI trial data round-up Oct 19, 2020
COVID Heart Autopsies Point More to Clot Damage Than Myocarditis Results bolster case for anticoagulation in hospitalized patients Oct 15, 2020
Was COVID-19 Really the Killer? Panel addresses determination of "death from" versus "death with" coronavirus infection Oct 15, 2020
Upadacitinib, Abatacept Go Head to Head in RA And the winner is... both, depending on whether efficacy or safety is the main criterion Oct 14, 2020
