News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 21, 2016
Key clinical point: Asymptomatic people who carry an intermediate number (27-35) of CAG repeats on the huntingtin gene may be at increased risk for...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 18, 2016
Key clinical point: Ceritinib produced meaningful, durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with NSCLC who had advanced disease, including...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 13, 2016
Key clinical point: The Endocrine Society’s updated Clinical Practice Guideline for managing primary aldosteronism is “a clarion call” for physicia...
Article Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 27, 2016
Topics include: TNF inhibitors & IBD in pregnancy • Vision loss in giant cell arteritis • Pediatric mental illness: diagnosis & p...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 19, 2016
Key clinical point: Among patients with type 2 diabetes, those with foot ulcers show cognitive impairment, compared with those who don’t hav...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 19, 2016
Key clinical point: Among patients with type 2 diabetes, those with foot ulcers show cognitive impairment, compared with those who don’t hav...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 19, 2016
Key clinical point: Current and former cigarette smoking are associated with a longer hospital stay for patients with lung cancer, chronic obstruc...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 18, 2016
A hepatitis C awareness initiative dramatically raised the rate of HCV screening and treatment in a large American Indian population – the ethnic grou...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 5, 2016
The percentage of emergency department (ED) visits due to anaphylaxis more than doubled from 2011 to 2015 at one Canadian children’s hospital.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 3, 2016
The hepatitis B vaccine was immunogenic in adults with type 2 diabetes, had a safety profile similar to that of control subjects, and should be admini...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 2, 2016
Key clinical point: Antipsychotics should be used only when agitation or psychosis are severe, dangerous, and/or cause significant distress for de...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: May 2, 2016
Gastrointestinal endoscopists appear to be “upcoding” patient anesthesia risk during outpatient procedures so that health insurance will cover the cos...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: April 30, 2016
Key clinical point: A simple, hospital-wide “avoid heparin” intervention dramatically cut the burden of heparin-induced thrombocytopen...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: April 30, 2016
Key clinical point: Many emergency department cases deemed “nonurgent” by triage personnel actually are indistinguishable from those d...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: April 27, 2016
Two Ebola vaccines were found safe and effective in separate international phase I trials, according to two reports in the New England Journal of Medi...
