Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
In pregnant women, premature rupture of the membranes (the chorion and the amniotic sac) is a problem that can lead to infections in both mother and baby by permitting hostile bacteria to [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
In the generation or so since cardiac angioplasty has become a widely used alternative to bypass surgery, standards of care required that a cardiac surgeon be on call at the hospital in [...]
A few weeks ago I met a relatively new MedInfoNow subscriber at his blog (social media at its finest!). Jerry Fahrni is a licensed pharmacist who now works as a product manager for a company that specializes in pharmacy automation and technology. On his “Pharmacy Informatics and Technology” blog, he talked about using MedInfoNow to [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
For a long time, we have known that men have a higher incidence of coronary artery disease than women of the same age. This is serious stuff, of course, since coronary artery [...]
MedInfoNow is known for delivering personalized weekly updates of the new journal literature to busy healthcare professionals who are pressed for time yet need to keep abreast of developments in their fields. Our subscribers simply let us know what topics they want to track, by completing a profile, and MedInfoNow does all the work, saving [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
Pain management is a well-known clinical challenge. Pain is hard to define, there’s no laboratory test to clarify how much someone actually hurts, and individuals seem to vary in the amount of [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
This study is an example of how useful so-called negative results can be. The authors recruited patients who were recently diagnosed with “mild” arthritis, and the goal was to compare standard (conservative) [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
People who follow healthcare, even casually, are probably aware that fewer people die from heart attacks now than in earlier times. If that’s all you need to know, then you can skip [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for health care and has just become available for free online.
The week’s article reports on a study that ought to get the attention of clinicians in many specialties. Venous thrombosis, a condition in which clots form in veins that can include [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
This week’s article probably is an annual must-read for almost every healthcare policy maker. This very lengthy piece slices and dices just about every number that exists about cancer in the U.S., [...]
