News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: February 20, 2019
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – Psychiatrists grieve when a patient overdoses and dies, but talking to other clinicians and using specialized checklists can...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: December 14, 2018
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – When it comes to mortality, the data on fentanyl are sometimes available, but they are cumbersome to collect, an expert says...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: December 14, 2018
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – Fentanyl has opioid receptor affinity similar to that of morphine, research shows, and it’s not known why it is up to 100 ti...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: December 13, 2018
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – Many clinicians say they’re unsure about interpreting urine drug screens, but a 30-minute training session can make a big di...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: December 13, 2018
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – More than 56% of rural counties in the country have no buprenorphine provider.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: December 12, 2018
BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. – Small but tantalizing studies are showing benefits from treatment with psilocybin...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: October 12, 2018
Hospitalists must be more keenly tuned in than ever to patients' precise needs.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: September 14, 2018
Integrating NPs and PAs into hospitalist groups successfully is a “nuanced and multilayered” process.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: July 20, 2018
The identification of heme-regulated inhibitor (HRI) was made using a tailored CRISPR screen of adult human erythroid cells.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: July 18, 2018
Melanoma patients who take higher doses of glucocorticoids for hypophysitis induced by the checkpoint-inhibitor also had a shorter time to treatmen...
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: July 13, 2018
Not all role expansion in hospital medicine is good role expansion, experts say.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: June 1, 2018
ORLANDO – Think twice before ordering that preoperative test, experts say.
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: May 30, 2018
New findings show that, in a surprisingly high number of patients, inflammatory back pain does not lead to axial SpA
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: May 29, 2018
Long-term success of stem cell transplant in severe scleroderma patients might prompt patient interest, but most won’t be eligible, an expert says....
News Author: Thomas R. Collins Publish date: May 25, 2018
Interpreting IgG4 levels when determining whether patients have IgG4-related disease can be a tricky matter, but newer tests are effective tools
