Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Test performance of celiac disease serologies

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From JAMA : Among adult patients presenting with abdominal symptoms in primary care or other unselected populations, IgA antitissue transglu...

Should all patients with PE be checked for concomitant DVT?

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According to a recent study : Conclusions: In patients with a first episode of acute symptomatic PE, the presence of concomitant DVT is an i...
Monday, July 05, 2010

The Society of Hospital Medicine urges the FDA not to approve generic Lovenox

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Why??? I'm not sure I understand why, but SHM apparently does receive considerable support from Sanofi-Aventis, the maker of Lovenox....
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Rapid response teams have not been convincingly shown to improve outcomes

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---according to research quality data, but the effectiveness of such teams may be enhanced by using the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) ...

What route of corticosteroids for AECOPD?

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In his latest Medscape video update in pulmonary and critical care Andy Shorr discusses the ins and outs of the study I originally linked h...

Therapeutic inertia or appropriate skepticism?

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Bob Morrow over at the Transparent Medical Practice blog always seems to come up with something provocative. The other day he was questioni...
Friday, July 02, 2010

Was Elena Kagan a ghostwriter for ACOG?

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Seems to me she all but admitted so in her confirmation hearings and here it is on You Tube. Watch and decide for yourself. The clip is a ...

The dizzies: ordinary vertigo or cerebellar infarction?

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A recent review article is available here . Here's why this is important: While most patients who present to emergency departments (ED)...
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Sodium azide toxicity

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A discussion in Emergency Medicine news.

Beyond rapid response teams: track and trigger systems

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Experience with RRTs has shown us that, by themselves, they don't do much good. More recent work has focused on various extensions of t...

Professional groups issue letter in support of Donald Berwick's nomination

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It reads in part : "Specifically, it has been suggested that Dr. Berwick is an advocate of health care rationing and that he in some wa...

Twenty states so far have filed challenges to federal health care reform

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Here's an update on Virginia's efforts .
Thursday, July 01, 2010

More on Elena Kagan's alleged ghostwriting for ACOG

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This from the corner : The War on Science [Yuval Levin] If you haven’t read Shannen Coffin’s piece on Elena Kagan and the partial-birth-ab...

Were hundreds of St. Louis area vets exposed to HIV and other bloodborne pathogens?

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That's what you'd think if you read this somewhat over-hyped report from CNN . The problem was a deviation from the protocol for cl...

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch is being sued

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Read the update here . He plans to continue his work. You can contribute to his defense here .

It's that time of year again

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Does the July phenomenon really exist in teaching hospitals? Studies through the years have been contradictory. A post at Kevin MD points...

Octreotide for sulfonylurea induced hypoglycemia

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This underutilized antidote is the subject of another fascinating toxicology essay by Dr. James R. Roberts.
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Inconsistency in health care decisions at NHS---driven by politics?

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It would seem so according to this post at Secondhand Smoke: So, some seriously ill patients might get rationed out of a stay in hospital, ...

Marilyn Monroe's chest x-rays

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--- auctioned for $45,000 . Via Boing Boing .

What will health care reform mean?

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Maybe this , according to David B. Nash: Next, we can relinquish our slavish adherence to the notion of professional autonomy. Not an ounce ...