Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
Glucophage and its generic equivalent metformin have been mainstays for treating type 2 diabetes, the most common form, for well over a decade. The drug reliably reduces blood sugar, which is the [...]
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., [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
I’m highlighting this article because I’m guessing this has implications well beyond the extremely obese people who are most likely to develop nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. As anyone who’s seen a Lipitor [...]
Each week, we select an article from an influential journal that has broad implications for healthcare and has just become available for free online.
I haven’t commented on any articles related to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) lately, so this article from a mainstream ophthalmology journal caught my eye, so to speak. (Well, mainstream if you [...]
E-versions of books are proliferating, and they are available from more and more platforms to an increasing number of readers. To help make sense of the shifting landscape in medical publishing, Doody Enterprises is collaborating on webinars designed to provide insights into its current state and future directions.Â
This month and the next, Doody Enterprises is [...]
A recent post on a good medical blog describes a number of iPhone apps that a well-informed patient with chronic migraines has sampled. This is more than a mere catalog — you get some sensible, hands-on comments about what’s good about them, and what isn’t. All but one of the apps are free, so if you [...]
An e-newsletter from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights an interesting new article in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases showing that from 1998 to 2005 hospitalizations to treat peptic ulcers decreased by a whopping 21%. The reason is that clinicians finally accepted the once-heretical notion that peptic ulcers are generally caused by an [...]
