Notes from Dr. RW

From Medscape Ask the Experts . Among the possible benefits of metformin for DM 1 the article talks a lot about weight control. Which make...

So the sixth edition of the manual has just come out. You can go here to access a link to download the entire manual for free. For the mo...

---as a step toward possible vaccine development, just in case .

This open-label randomized controlled trial reported a reduction in PTS attributable to local thrombolytic therapy in patients with iliofem...

Last fall the CDC reported two cases of infection with this novel influenza strain in children in Indiana and Pennsylvania. By the end of ...

I've been looking back over my posts for the year 2011. There was a lot of published research over the past year that should be of inte...

I've seen fuzzy use of these terms and evidently the question came up at Emory morning report, hence a post at The Bottom Line : Myelop...

From a review in Gastroenterology. Most are “malignant” with the exception of insulinomas. “Malignant” is quotes because clinical behavio...

This was a recent topic of an evidence summary posted at The Bottom Line according to which the only universally accepted indication is for...

You wouldn't criticize an orange for not being a good apple . In terms of taste, texture and many other attributes an orange isn't ...

This review belongs in the hospitalist's library. It covers the two new agents approved in the U.S. as well as those in the pipeline. ...

This topic was reviewed as part of the acid-base teaching series of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. Concluding points from the ar...

There's a long held belief that this is true. I first heard it from an old sage who said that when the thyrotoxic patient develops atri...

TC can present with anterior ST elevation, in which case it resembles acute anterior STEMI. This paper demonstrates an electrocardiographi...

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From the Wash U Hospital Medicine section .

Reports in the last few years highlight the emerging importance of lead aVR, a long neglected electrocardiographic lead. I have written sev...

It has been approved for the indication in Europe based on two phase 3 trials showing non-inferiority to vanc. In the US it is approved on...

Traditional teaching and guidelines held that we should pour the fluids early on in the treatment of acute pancreatitis. Nobody would say j...

Interstate compacts are older than the Constitution itself although this effort just got going a few months ago. A few states have signed ...