A Goal Too Far: Rethinking HbA1c Targets for Diabetes Treatment
The American College of Physicians just changed its guidance for how aggressively to treat type 2 diabetes, relaxing the HbA1c goal to something below 8 rather than 6.5 or 7 as other organizations rec...
19 Jun 201829min
When Will It Stop? Clinicians Are Still Ordering Routine ECGs Despite Recommendations to the Contrary
For many years guidelines have recommended against obtaining ECGs for low-risk patients undergoing routine health examinations. Yet about a fifth of all patients having these exams get an ECG. Why? Ar...
12 Jun 201822min
Replacing the Trachea: An Exciting New Procedure; But How Do We Know It Really Works?
Many attempts to replace the trachea have failed in the past. The most spectacular failure was fraudulent research done in Europe by a high-profile surgeon who was eventually charged with scientific m...
20 Mai 201821min
Update: New Recommendations for Prostate Cancer Screening
The controversy continues about the efficacy of PSA screening for prostate cancer. New recommendations were just issued from the USPSTF about who should be screened for prostate cancer and when. But n...
8 Mai 201825min
Peanut Allergy: The Recommendations Have Changed
Peanut allergy is common. But it is more common in countries that delay the introduction of peanuts into the diets of infants. Guidelines in the United States previously recommended delayed introducti...
6 Mar 201819min
What Is New in Acute Respiratory Disease Syndrome?
Acute respiratory disease syndrome is characterized by respiratory failure that occurs after someone is acutely ill, usually from a disease that does not primarily involve the lungs. Its cause, diagno...
20 Feb 201830min
Medical Findings In U.S. Government Personnel Reporting Symptoms After Exposure To Sensory Phenomena in Havana, Cuba
Douglas H. Smith, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Neurosurgery and Center for Brain Injury and Repair, and Randel Swanson II, DO, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania's Physica...
14 Feb 201829min
The Health of Players of American Football
The health risks associated with participation in American football have garnered increasing attention over the past several years. Particular focus has been on concussion and the association of repea...
1 Feb 201830min
