FDA Approves At-Home Furosemide for Heart Failure Strong diuretic to become available outside the hospital setting Oct 10, 2022
CMS' Financial Incentives Didn't Move the Dial on Home Dialysis Incentives may just not be strong enough, say some Oct 07, 2022
AAO Roundup: Glaucoma Subtype Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Risk Other studies report fewer reoperations with combo eye surgery and vision risk with shingles Oct 06, 2022
Midlife Omega-3 Levels Tied to Brain Structure, Cognition Larger hippocampal volume, better abstract reasoning for people in their 40s Oct 05, 2022
Salt Pills During Diuresis: Acute HF Patients Neither Helped Nor Harmed Small randomized trial challenges conventional thinking about sodium Oct 05, 2022
Concurrent LAA Occlusion Loses Its Appeal for LVAD Surgeons Heart pump placement plus anticoagulation suffice for patients, even those with Afib Oct 05, 2022
Can Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Reduce Dementia Risk? DREAM study findings conflict with other recent data Oct 04, 2022
The Search Is On for Another Xeno Heart Transplant Recipient Transplant surgeons discuss testing the concept in more humans Oct 04, 2022
What Drug Laws Are in the Inflation Reduction Act? The Answer Might Surprise You It's not just about negotiating drug prices in Medicare Oct 04, 2022
Urgency to Expand SGLT2i Use in HF Heightened by More DELIVER Data Analyses continue to support wider adoption of dapagliflozin, researchers say Oct 03, 2022
Dementia Diagnosis Linked to Suicide Risk almost seven times higher for people with diagnosis before age 65 Oct 03, 2022
Growing Calls to Marry HF Specialists With Cardiac Critical Care Cardiac ICU staffing issues require a multidisciplinary team approach, some say Oct 02, 2022
Higher Dose, Longer Treatment Interval With Aflibercept Shows Promise in Eye Disease Dosing 8 mg every 12 or 16 weeks for DME, AMD matches results with 2 mg every 8 weeks Oct 02, 2022
Keeping Plavix After Short DAPT: Bleeding Benefit Emerges a Few Years After PCI Antiplatelet strategy has good results in longer follow-up of SMART-CHOICE trial Sep 29, 2022
The Future Looks Bleak for Surgical Residents Like Me Looming Medicare cuts will force surgeons to do more with less, undermining trainee success Sep 28, 2022
Biden Hits Republicans, Drug Companies in Healthcare Speech "This year, the American people won and Big Pharma lost" Sep 27, 2022
It's High Time for Broader Access to Non-Opioid Pain Medication Limited Medicare coverage poses barriers, but bipartisan legislation offers a solution Sep 22, 2022
Making Low-Dose tPA Work for Japanese DOAC Users With Ischemic Stroke IV thrombolytics for these patients are accepted in some countries, but not the U.S. Sep 21, 2022
Nursing Home Medical Directors Should Be Named Publicly, Bill Urges Reporting names to CMS could point out those who are in over their heads, society says Sep 21, 2022
Not Just Recalls: Philips Tangles With Law Enforcement Company agreed to pay $24 million to settle whistleblower lawsuit Sep 21, 2022
In Wake of Philips Recall, Patients Still Waiting for Sleep Apnea Devices Effects of recall reverberate through sleep medicine community Sep 21, 2022
No Weird Dreams for Insomnia Patients Taking Lemborexant Even at 10 mg, the sleep aid resulted in few abnormal dreams or nightmares Sep 20, 2022
Gabapentin After Surgery Ups Risks in Older Adults Delirium, new antipsychotic use, and pneumonia more common Sep 20, 2022
Trazodone Commonly Used Off-Label for Insomnia Not much data to support efficacy or safety "as a surrogate hypnotic medication," researcher says Sep 20, 2022
Is PMR the Next Indication for Tocilizumab? Phase III data suggest yes, albeit in a limited population and with several cautions Sep 20, 2022
Wrangling Medicare: A New Vision A look at the future of the largest U.S. health insurance provider with Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD Sep 20, 2022 podcast
PCI vs CABG: Does Age Inform Choice for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease? Swedish registry study contributes to ongoing controversy Sep 19, 2022
Rexulti Calms Alzheimer's Dementia-Related Agitation But atypical antipsychotic disappoints in borderline personality disorder Sep 19, 2022
RDN Powers Through Another Off-Med Trial, Clinical Benefits Still Untested Plus, an apparent magnification of effect in SYMPLICITY HTN-3 Sep 19, 2022
Stroke-Heart Syndrome: The 'Perfect Storm' Clinicians describe significant diagnostic and treatment challenges for a young patient Sep 19, 2022
MitraClip G4 Sets the Bar Higher for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Post-approval study suggests growing pool of TEER-suitable patients Sep 18, 2022
Presumed Clinical Benefits of TAVR Cerebral Protection Remain Unproven Large trial comes up short in proving a definitive benefit to debris filters Sep 17, 2022
Current Troponin Testing Approach Is a Bust for MI Diagnosis in Older People Age-adjusted cutoffs, universal rule-in threshold not helpful either Sep 16, 2022
Appointment Wait Times Continue to Rise Amid Concerns of Physician Shortages New survey finds that wait times increased by 8% across four specialties since 2017 Sep 16, 2022
Data Now Out for Pegloticase-MTX Combo Gout Treatment Journal publication supports recent label change Sep 16, 2022
The Internal Conflict of Being a Ringside Doctor The aftermath of a 2019 fight nearly broke me Sep 15, 2022
Cognition Improves With Daily Multivitamin Supplement But it's too early to recommend multivitamins to prevent cognitive decline, experts caution Sep 15, 2022
House Bill Would Fix Glitch in Medicare Non-Emergency Ambulance Transport Program Measure would require states to help some "dual eligibles" who have trouble accessing the benefit Sep 15, 2022
Aggressive Alcohol Septal Ablation for HCM Holds Up, Pacemakers Notwithstanding Complication of ablation not associated with worse outcomes at 5 years Sep 14, 2022
