Update on Atrial Fibrillation: Review of the New AHA/ACC/HRS Treatment Guidelines
Cardiologist and JAMA Deputy Editor Greg Curfman, MD, discusses the many changes in the new AHA/ACC/HRS atrial fibrillation guidelines with University of Chicago cardiologists Gaurav Upadhyay, MD, and...
15 Mar 201942min
Beyond the Rhetoric: Gun Control That Works, Part 1
Almost nothing is more controversial than gun control in the United States. Yet while passions flare and legislators posture but do little, deaths from gun violence are all too common. Almost every pr...
12 Mar 201927min
Is It Safe? What Happens When Your Surgeon Is Not Actually Doing Some of Your Operation?
Great controversy exists regarding the safety of surgery when the attending surgeon allows someone else to perform parts of the operation. These practices are necessary components of surgical training...
26 Feb 201924min
COPD: All You Need to Know in 20 Minutes
COPD is common enough that it is responsible for 3% of all clinic visits in the United States. Clinicians will undoubtedly deal with this disease in their practice. How to diagnose and manage it is re...
26 Feb 201921min
Next Generation Sequencing of Infectious Pathogens in Public Health and Clinical Practice
Next-generation sequencing is a catchall term for new, high-throughput technologies that allow rapid sequencing of a full genome. It can be used to sequence a patient's DNA in diagnosing a genetic dis...
14 Feb 201925min
Can I Believe the Results From Observational Studies? Using E-Values That Anyone Can Calculate for Evaluating the Risk of Confounding
E-values are a new tool that enables investigators to estimate the likelihood that some unmeasured confounder might overcome seemingly positive results. They are very easy to calculate and any reader ...
12 Feb 201928min
Finding a Serious Arrhythmia Using a Watch
Saved by a Fitbit. Technology is developing at a pace far exceeding its application in medical care. An exception is in consumer devices, which as long as they do not hold themselves out as diagnostic...
29 Jan 201914min
Screening for Breast Cancer: Is It Worth It?
Breast cancer screening is debated passionately among those who advocate for very aggressive screening and other experts who believe that screening can be harmful. The arguments for all sides of the d...
22 Jan 201917min
