An April 13, 2016 issue of New England Journal of Medicine concluded that an increased BMI(Body Mass Index) in late adolescence was strongly associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in young adulthood or midlife. From the Article Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades and affect a third of the adolescent… Read More
I just got back from watching my son compete at the WIRA (Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association) rowing championships and every team there was drinking chocolate milk after their races. Many of the athletes were convinced that chocolate milk was the miracle recovery drink. So I decided to look it up and determine what the data… Read More
An article and accompanying editorial in the June 16, 2015 issue of JAMA looks at the issue and the practical implications of antibiotics versus surgery for acute appendicitis. For years we have treated diverticulitis nonsurgically with few complications. This study was undertaken in Finland but also studies in the US at UCLA are also underway. The… Read More
An article by Padma Gulur et al. in Pain Research and Treatment Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 482081 looked at morphine and hydromorphone use. Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) is up to 7.5 times as potent as morphine and its use has dramatically increased in the past decade. This study has some great background information and resources which… Read More
A study in the May 2016 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine looks at the issue of the ability to speak and understand English and 72 hour returns. The study concludes even with insurance status taken into account, whereas admission rates were unchanged, that people who don’t understand English are more likely to return to… Read More
It is not uncommon to hear about nurses going on strike however, we never hear of physicians going on strike. Physicians around the world are frustrated and many feel powerless. Many proponents say the only way for the healthcare system to actually be reformed is to have the physicians lead the change. Is a physician… Read More
Emergency physicians prescribe less than 5% of all opiate prescriptions in the United States. Furthermore, emergency physicians had the highest decrease (-8.9%) of all medical specialties in opiate prescriptions from 2010-2012. Although there is an opioid epidemic, the data shows that emergency physicians are part of the solution. Overall, opiate prescriptions increased by 11.7%… Read More
The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and certain cancers was first reported in 1980. They determined that people residing at higher latitudes, were more likely to have Vitamin D deficiencies also had higher rates of colon cancer. Vitamin D has since been linked to other cancers including breast, lung, and bladder. A study published in… Read More
Stomach cancer – also known as gastric cancer – is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. Almost a million cases of stomach cancer are diagnosed annually and this accounts just under 10% all cancer. The average age at diagnosis in the United States is 72 years. Stomach cancer is the third most common cause of… Read More
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