Diabetes: Is This Tattoo Worth a 1,000 Needle Pricks? UCSD researchers report early results on a tattoo to measure blood sugar. Jan 27, 2015 video
Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes? Jan 23, 2015
Cosentyx Gets FDA Nod for Psoriasis Anti-IL17 drug secukinumab OK'd for moderate-to-severe disease. Jan 21, 2015
More Nurses May Mean Fewer Deaths in ICU High patient to nurse ratios may lead to more errors and fatal outcomes. Jan 21, 2015
CRC Regimens Give Survival Bump in Second Line Ramucirumab trial meets primary endpoint; famitinib offers respectable disease control rate. Jan 18, 2015 video
5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise. Jan 14, 2015
Onglyza OK in Renal Patients No increase in cardiovascular events seen in renally impaired SAVOR patients. Jan 14, 2015
More Drugs, Better Survival in Metastatic Colon Cancer Addition of oxaliplatin to FOLFIRI and bevacizumab doubled 5-year survival. Jan 13, 2015
Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists She shouldn't be allowed to say no when the benefits are so clear-cut, they say. Jan 13, 2015
The Five Best Apps for Echocardiography Echocardiography is a frequently used tool in the evaluation of a wide range of cardiac diseases. Jan 13, 2015
CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don’t Take Heart Meds Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do? Jan 08, 2015
Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5 Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Jan 08, 2015
Reclast May Protect Bone by Reversing Marrow Fat Early zoledronic acid reverses bone marrow adipogenesis during estrogen deficiency. Jan 07, 2015
Diclegis: Drug Makes 30-Year Comeback Class A morning sickness medication gains FDA approval after decades of being misunderstood. Jan 04, 2015
Meniscus Lesions Tied to Neuropathic Pain in Knee OA Meniscal extrusion on MRI significantly associated with increasing pain scores in knee osteoarthritis. Jan 02, 2015
Early and Late Mortality Spikes in Giant Cell Arteritis Danish study reveals 10-year survival patterns. Dec 29, 2014
Do You Hear the (Heart) Beat of These Dancing Feet? If you thought electrophysiologists are boring, think again. Ditto Icelanders. Dec 28, 2014 video
Gut Hormone May Up Dehydration Risk in T2D Endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 appears to inhibit fluid intake. Dec 28, 2014
Separating Spondyloarthritis From Back Pain Still Problematic Spinal MRI criteria don't help differentiate SpA from nonspecific pain. Dec 27, 2014
JIA Parents Lose Significant Work Time More missed work in the year before and after a child's diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Dec 18, 2014
FDA Launches Compounding Advisory Committee The 14 committee members come from a variety of disciplines. Dec 18, 2014
Antibodies Predict Scleroderma Renal Crisis Antibody test aids assessing risk for this potentially lethal complication. Dec 17, 2014
The Best Family Medicine Apps Physicians Should Download Dr. Douglas Maurer, one of our family medicine physician writers at iMedicalApps, has created a great list of apps that are essential for family medicine physicians to download. Dec 16, 2014
Painful Hands, Hurting Hearts? Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis was linked with coronary heart disease. Dec 15, 2014
Cannabis for Child Seizures: Popular, But Is It Effective? Thus far, only parent reports and open-label trials for support. Dec 10, 2014
Opioid Linked to Low Blood Sugar Tramadol was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia. Dec 09, 2014
AstraZeneca's Move to Protect Nexium Market Ruled Legal "Pay to delay" strategy upheld by court. Dec 08, 2014
Drugmaker: Aptiom Monotherapy Cuts Seizures Study supports FDA filing for expanded indication. Dec 08, 2014
Benefits Pile Up for Epilepsy Surgery When surgery is an option, studies suggest it's usually the best one. Dec 08, 2014
Women, Blacks at Greater Risk for Bunions Subgroups most likely to develop hallux valgus confirmed in major study. Dec 04, 2014
10 Ways Primary Care Practices Can Improve Care High quality care and cost-cutting aren't mutually exclusive. Dec 04, 2014
Knee Surgery Linked to Higher OA Risk Can meniscus repairs actually worsen joint damage? Dec 04, 2014
Disease Activity Predicts Death in Sjogren's High disease activity at baseline and immune markers can be used as prognostic markers in Sjogren's syndrome. Dec 02, 2014
Mild Stenosis Linked to Death in Diabetes Long-term registry shows impact similar to single-vessel obstruction. Dec 02, 2014
