que Wilson, CNN Updated 7:14 AM ET, Thu December 19, 2013 When Nailah Winkfield took her daughter to Children’s Hospital & Research Center in Oakland, California, for a tonsillectomy, she thought it would be a short stay. “When I walked her into that hospital, she was perfectly fine,” Winkfield told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “There was […]
Orthopedics Today, November 2013 Javad Parvizi, MD FRCS; Fatih Küçükdurmaz, MD As if the numerous adverse effects of opiates on the human body were not enough, emerging evidence unravels a link between opioids and infection. The link between opioids and infection was noted in the late 1980s during HIV research. Epidemiological studies demonstrated that the […]
Robert Lowes November 11, 2013 an Edward Scott, MD, a physician in New Castle, Pennsylvania, once prescribed more pain medication than anyone else in his state. It turned out to be a dubious honor. On October 29, a state judge sentenced the 62-year-old Dr. Scott to at least 9.5 years in prison for illegally prescribing […]
12.10.2013 by David Pittman Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today Drug sales reps should be banned from academic medical centers, but mingling between faculty and pharma researchers is not a problem, according to a conflict-of-interest task force. “Pharmaceutical sales representatives should not be allowed access to any faculty, students, or trainees in academic medical centers or affiliated […]
12.09.2013 About 18% of lung cancers caught by low-dose CT screening were slow-growing tumors that wouldn’t have affected patients during their lifetime, an analysis of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) showed. That trial showed a mortality advantage to screening, but for every one lung cancer death prevented per 320 patients with screening in the trial, […]
DISSECTING THE EVIDENCE David A. Johnson, Edward C. Oldfield IVDisclosures Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;11(5):458-464. INTRODUCTION Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are medications that are ubiquitous in a gastroenterologist’s practice. This class of medication has been available for commercial use for nearly 25 years and this class of acid-reduction agents has supplanted the use of histamine-2–receptor antagonists […]
Larry Hand November 06, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813930 Infants younger than 2 months who are hospitalized more than once with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are significantly more likely to undergo antireflux procedures (ARPs) than children aged 7 months or older, according to an article published online November 6 in JAMA Surgery. Children with multiple disorders, regardless […]
By Gregory Wallace @gregorywallace November 4, 2013: 6:33 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Johnson & Johnson will pay $2.2 billion to settle charges that the company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and paid “kickbacks” to doctors and nursing homes. The penalties announced Monday involve fines and forfeiture to the federal government and several states. The […]
12.03.2013 Rates of apparent substance use disorders among anesthesiology residents have recently been at their highest level since 1975, researchers said. Disciplinary records and other data sources on more than 44,000 individuals starting anesthesiology residencies from 1975 to 2009 identified 384 with evidence of substance use disorders during training, for an overall rate of 2.16 […]
By Anthony Rosner, PhD, LLD [Hon.], LLC Dynamic Chiropractic – November 1, 2013, Vol. 31, Issue 21 Full Story: http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=56729 A dramatic and sobering study on the incidence and types of adverse medical events worldwide has just been published in the journal BMC Quality and Safety.1 The study’s long list of credentials is indeed compelling, […]
IMNG Medical Media, 2013 Oct 31, SY Tan Question: A psychiatrist refers a young woman for possible pneumonia. Her symptoms include episodic dyspnea and hyperventilation. The resident obtained a history of chronic anxiety and depression, for which the patient takes diazepam. There was a history of cigarette smoking and use of oral contraceptives. Physical examination […]
George D. Lundberg, MD November 26, 2013 Hello and welcome. I am Dr. George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape. Hospitals are dangerous places. I no longer work in a hospital, and I try never to go to hospitals even to visit, unless, of course, I or my family were to become really […]
Laurie Barclay, MD October 23, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813034 Clinicians may not tell most patients about the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a result of cancer screenings, according to survey results published online October 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine. “Cancer screening can produce benefits: finding true and treatable cancer at an early stage. However, it also can […]
IMNG Medical Media, 2013 Oct 23, MA Moon Full Story: http://www.practiceupdate.com/news/3504 Urologists who incorporate intensity-modulated radiation therapy services into their own practices are much more likely to refer men with newly diagnosed nonmetastatic prostate cancer for IMRT than are other urologists, according to a report. The study was published online Oct. 23 in the New […]
Nancy A. Melville August 21, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809720 The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has launched a probe into the prescribing of atypical antipsychotic medications to children under Medicaid. “We will determine the extent to which children ages 18 and younger had Medicaid claims for atypical antipsychotic […]
Published: Oct 10, 2013 By Chris Kaiser Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/42211 A recent report of a pediatric specialist involved in child pornography made me wonder about the magnitude of pediatric physician involvement in child porn. The sentinel case was that of Christopher Pelloski, 39, the former director of Ohio State University’s pediatric radiation oncology program. Internet […]
CBS NEWS Full Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57606631/body-found-in-hospital-stairwell-may-be-missing-patient/ SAN FRANCISCO A body discovered in a San Francisco hospital stairwell was that of a female patient at the facility who disappeared more than two weeks ago, hospital officials said Wednesday. San Francisco General Hospital Chief Medical Officer Todd May said at a news conference that officials were still awaiting […]
By Robert Langreth – Oct 7, 2013 11:00 PM CT Full Story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-08/robot-surgery-damaging-patients-rises-with-marketing.html Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz, a general surgeon on the medical staff, was the first in the Rocky Mountain region to use a technique known as robotic surgery to remove gall bladders through one incision in […]
By ROB COOPER PUBLISHED: 10:44 EST, 6 November 2013 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 6 November 2013 Dr Erik Scholten faces ban after being found guilty of misconduct Surgeon was about to replace woman’s breast implants when he took photo He said he planned to show ‘anonymous’ photo to other patients as a comparison But the matron […]
Published: Oct 3, 2013 By Michael Smith http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/IDWeek/42052 Action Points Note that some of this research was only published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Despite years of persuasion and publicity, antibiotics are still drastically overprescribed for […]