Notes from Dr. RW

Highlights of the Society of Hospital Medicine 2007 meeting in Dallas were featured in a blog for those who missed the meeting or just want...

In this VA population traditional NSAIDs were at least as risky for cardiovascular health as COX-2s as reported in the American Journal of M...

Right now I’m blogging as time and energy allow. It’s hard work being a hospitalist! More soon.

In their NEJM editorial , Psaty and Furberg lament the lack of evidence for macrovascular benefit from rosiglitazone (Avandia). What is mis...

For most of us the answer is yes, but not if you’re an EBM purist. Dr. David Cundiff has been stirring the pot by asking some tough questio...

---and what I always thought was a reputable, science based, no nonsense journal, Chest . And the example , a trial of sublingual homeopath...

Insulin deprivation in type I diabetes has, somewhat simplistically, been likened to starvation. It’s no surprise, then, that a few weight ...

Just in case you didn’t know, a JAMA commentary provides this warning about things you can no longer say in public about U.S. health care: T...

…advocates for patients and tells his story in Medical Economics.

An OP-ED writer in the New York Times wants to eliminate all pharmaceutical industry support for accredited CME . I guess he wants to crimi...

Health Care Renewal discusses the Avandia Spin Cycle and concludes that the Avandia discussions boil down to two questions: The first quest...

In one of my recent rants about methadone I said this: 1999 was about the time pain management became politicized and activists were beating...

There have been many reviews of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) in the last few years. The latest is Heparin Induced Thrombocytopeni...

Just look at the numbers . Via Kevin M.D.

Two medical bloggers whom I deeply respect have lamented the deterioration of the public conversation on Avandia. Dr. Roy Poses of Health C...

Giuliani hasn’t announced the details yet but we can get an idea here . Giuliani said he would give families a $15,000 tax credit to purchas...

He’s not particularly happy with house staff work hour restrictions. He concludes: Thus, from its roots as a patient-centered, education-or...

A recent review from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on developments in the field of electrophysiology during the year 200...

----which are largely ignored by the proponents. Richard Epstein provides a balanced view in his contribution to the conflict of interest s...

I just got a chance to view a portion of the Avandia hearings. A video of the hearing along with transcripts of opening statements can be a...