Hospital Medicine

Former deputy commissioner is a partner at firm with vast pharma holdings.

Patients taking opioids leading up to surgery have worse outcomes.

A company seeks to mitigate HAI risks with UV light docks for mobile devices.

The phase 3b MUSCA trial reported positive results for mepolizumab.

Do emergency department physicians follow the asthma care guidelines?

Researchers analyze walnut immunotherapy outcomes at 142 weeks.

Females were less likely to be compliant, a contradiction to previous research.

Only a small percentage of people who think they have a penicillin allergy actually do.

How safe are anti-inflammatory medications for children?

In an ideal world, interventions would have a pilot study before RCT.

Which recommendations decrease asthma morbidity in children with asthma?

Matthew Perzanowski, PhD, discusses allergic asthma environmental factors.

Steven Nissen, MD, says that heart attacks in fit people are not unusual.

The MD Magazine editors rounded up the 10 best stories from this month.

HIV, hepatitis C coinfections weren't all that uncommon at a Bronx ER.

A foot or ankle injury misdiagnosis can lead to chronic pain or arthritis.

The MD Magazine editors rounded up the 10 best stories from January—did you read them all?

The Northeast remains the region with the highest abortion rates.

Whether it's of a brick wall, sky, or nature, hospital window view doesn't really matter.

Trump repeats his pledges: new health plan, competitive bids on Medicare drugs.

The report documents two dozen high school deaths over 10 years between 2005 and 2014.

Balaji Srinivasan and Jim O'Neill have both previously derided the FDA's role.

The MD Magazine editors rounded up the 10 best stories from December—did you read them all?

Smoking teens, rogue genes, and mashed-up hookworms are among the many diverse, fascinating, and important asthma topics that came out of 2016.

Sitagliptin tablets proved more convenient and equally safe and effective as insulin injections in achieving glycemic control for people with diabetes admitted to hospitals for medical care or surgery, a five-center study found.

Despite the fact that two thirds of stroke survivors could suffer from a visual impairment, nearly half of stroke units do not even assess vision. A recent report suggests that more must be done to assess the outlook for vision in stroke survivors.

Between 2012 and 2014, 19 Pomona Valley patients died from C. difficile infection. One environmental services employee quoted in the LA Times said that she had not received any training on infection control in her 12 years of employment there.

A recent survey of asthma treatment in intensive care units of children's hospitals in the US reveals wide variability between institutions in both medication and ventilation interventions.

A Polish research team concluded that there are two mortality models for patients with pneumonia being treated for Clostridium difficile infection. and recommended the exclusion of one antibiotic from pneumonia treatment in hospitals.

Although antiretroviral therapy is effective in suppressing HIV-1 replication, it does not eradicate the virus and it requires lifelong adherence to the therapy. Authors of a new study say that bNAbs may be the key.