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Authors: Cook, Deborah J. MD, MSc, FRCPC et al Critical Care Medicine: October 2020 – Volume 48 – Issue 10 – p 1403-1410 Objectives: To describe the importance of critical care clinical research that is not pandemic-focused during pandemic times; outline principles to assist in the prioritization of nonpandemic research during pandemic times; and propose a guiding framework for decisions about whether, […]
Read MoreBy Amy Norton HealthDay News Middle-aged Americans are living with more physical pain than older adults are — and the problem is concentrated among the less-educated, a new study finds. The pattern may seem counterintuitive, since older age generally means more chronic health conditions and wear-and-tear on the body. And the middle-age pain peak is […]
Read MoreAuthors: Matthew A. Levin, M.D. et al Anesthesia Patient Stafety Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic in New York City during spring 2020 resulted in an unprecedented number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. With the need for intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators exceeding supply, anesthesia machines were used as ventilators in non-OR locations, an off-label […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS NEJM Journal Watch Patients with advanced colorectal cancer may see a survival benefit from drinking coffee, according to a JAMA Oncology study. Nearly 1200 patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic colorectal cancer completed food-frequency questionnaires and were followed for a median of […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Roughly 3,000 people in the United States are on the heart transplant waiting list at any given time, a statistic made even worse by the fact that many transplant centers flat-out reject hearts from obese donors. According to new research published in Circulation: Heart Failure, however, heart transplants from severely […]
Read MoreThis is for our readers who treat pain patients Author: Claire Sissons Medical News Today Poor posture, injury, or problems with the spine can all lead to upper back pain. A common cause of pain between the shoulder blades is muscle strain. Treatments for mild upper back pain include stretching exercises and pain relievers. Some […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman NEJM Journal Watch Edited by William E. Chavey, MD, MS In patients with hypertension, intensive blood pressure lowering is associated with reduced risk for orthostatic hypotension, according to a meta-analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions. The finding may seem counterintuitive to those […]
Read MoreAuthor: Beata Mostafavi M Health Lab Antibiotics may be enough to spare the appendix for some kids, with similar outcomes to surgery a year later and fewer days of missed school and other activities. The most common reason children end up in the emergency department for abdominal surgery starts with a bad stomachache and ends […]
Read MoreReviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. News of Medical Life Sciences Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages a week may increase the risk of high blood pressure (also called hypertension) among adults with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American […]
Read MoreBy Denise Baez DG Alerts High admission severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral load predicts mortality in hospitalised patients with and without cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Cell. Lars F. Westblade, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, and colleagues looked at cycle threshold (Ct) values from reverse transcription-polymerase […]
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