Episode 331: 329. Should We Give AceI or ARBs to Patients with CKD 4 and 5?

Let’s rewind to the early 2000s. Flip phones were cool, low-rise jeans were a crime, and the Women’s Health Initiative—WHI—dropped what became the medical equivalent of a headline: “Hormone Therapy In...

24 Mar 12min

— rivaroxaban versus apixaban.Yes, folks, this is The Battle of the Blood Thinners!And spoiler alert — one of them came out looking like the overachiever in a safety class... while the other probably ...

20 Mar 9min

Minocycline in Acute Ischemic Stroke (EMPHASIS trial)A multicenter, double-blind RCT in China studied 1,724 patients with acute ischemic stroke treated within 72 hours of onset. Patients received eith...

13 Mar 16min

Today, we're talking about Kawasaki disease-no, not the motorcycle company, though sometimes treating it does feel like trying to ride one at full speed through uncertainty.For decades, high-dose aspi...

11 Mar 7min

Setting the stagePicture this: your knee is like a three-room apartment. You've got a medial room, a lateral room, and a patellofemoral room. In isolated anteromedial osteoarthritis, just one room is ...

10 Mar 11min

Kalapura C, et al. Triptan initiation and cerebrovascular events in patients with migraine: A nationwide cohort study. J Am Heart Assoc 2026 Feb 17; 15:e043409. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.125.043409.  Today, w...

6 Mar 6min

Li H-Y, et al. GLP-1 receptor agonists and risk of optic nerve or vision-threatening events in patients with type 2 diabetes or cardiometabolic diseases: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial...

5 Mar 8min

CME-- Discharge Questions Answered in 2025

3 Mar 45min