by Milton Packer MD, MedPage Today Staff Writer October 04, 2017 In July 1973, I was a freshly-minted intern in the ER at Jacobi Hospital. Jacobi is to the Bronx what Bellevue is to Manhattan. It is the safety-net hospital, overfilled [...]
Approved for use in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today September 28, 2017 WASHINGTON -- Abbott's FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System -- the first system that doesn't require fingerstick calibration -- [...]
Signs from Australia suggest a tough version of the influenza virus could hit the Northern Hemisphere this winter By Sumathi Reddy - The Wall Street Journal - Oct. 2, 2017 It’s been an ugly flu season in Australia. That’s why some [...]
Skimpy, skipped breakfasts associated with plaque in Spanish study by Nicole Lou, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today October 02, 2017 Action Points • Skipping breakfast was associated with atherosclerotic buildup in a Spanish study, with light breakfasts also tied to subclinical plaque formation. [...]
Recent advances have made the technology more useful for planning surgery and creating drugs By Aili McConnon – Wall Street Journal - Updated Sept. 12, 2017 A year ago, an 11-year-old girl named London Secor had surgery at the Mayo Clinic [...]
Latest app has kick-counter, contraction timer built-in by Douglas Maurer DO, MPH, FAAFP September 29, 2017 The app store is bursting with apps for pregnant patients. Which ones should we recommend? For years, the Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs Pregnancy Guide – [...]
Approved for use in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today September 28, 2017 WASHINGTON -- Abbott's FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System -- the first system that doesn't require fingerstick calibration -- [...]
Shared decision-making works well, but requires time by Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today September 26, 2017 WASHINGTON -- Paying doctors more for simply sitting and talking with their patients -- rather than basing payment more on quality measures -- would [...]
Following industry trends, the pharma giant creates a start-up by Damian Garde, STAT News September 26, 2017 There's a popular theory about the limitations of global pharma companies: For all their skyscrapers and strategy reviews and private jets, they're simply too [...]
Adjusting for it 'would be a step in the right direction' by Nicole Lou, Reporter, MedPage Today/CRTonline.org September 25, 2017 Current ways to risk-adjust heart failure mortality as a measure of hospital-level quality are insufficient, suggested a study showing that accounting [...]