Psoriasis and Tonsillectomy: A Real Head Scratcher Skin disease often improves after surgery but no one knows why. Mar 24, 2015
Fat-Lysing Agent Makes Double Chin Disappear Consistent results seen with injection of synthetic deoxycholic acid compound. Mar 24, 2015
Acne Improves Without Use of Antibiotics Topical adapalene/benzoyl peroxide reduced lesion counts up to 75%. Mar 23, 2015
IL-17 Inhibitor Clears Psoriasis More Often Brodalumab twice as likely to clear all lesions as ustekinumab. Mar 22, 2015
Novel IL-23 Inhibitor Shows Promise in Psoriasis Interleukin-23 inhibitor has 'high efficacy, quiet safety signal.' Mar 22, 2015
Orthopedists' Financial Conflicts Can Hurt Patients, Surgeon Says It's financially compelling for doctors to do things that don't help patients. Mar 22, 2015
Future of Dermatology on Display at AAD Program to reflect challenges to practice, scientific advances. Mar 19, 2015
The Case for Body Cameras: Good for Doctors -- and Their Patients Why one doctor wants to see a camera added to a clinician's equipment checklist. Mar 16, 2015
Prediabetes Patients Have Fewer Gut Bugs A change for the worse apparent in the intestinal microbiome. Mar 08, 2015 video
Gross Anatomy: Rare Alga Growth From Human Tissue Sample The culture was negative, so what's all this green stuff? Mar 06, 2015
Seeds Top EBRT as Boost Tx in Prostate Cancer And other advances in prostate cancer care from the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Mar 03, 2015
Ultrasound After Steroid Shots Helps Slightly in Managing Knee OA Changes visualized after intra-articular injections are small and of borderline utility. Feb 27, 2015
Reversing Abortion Pill: Can It Be Done? A new group of anti-abortion physicians may have "the antidote" for RU-486. Feb 24, 2015
Endo Apps: How to Get Useful Glucose Meter Data There are several options for downloading and interpreting important data from diabetes patients. Feb 24, 2015
HDAC Inhibitor OK'd for Multiple Myeloma Panobinostat targets histone deacetylases; first of its kind to win approval in myeloma. Feb 23, 2015
Morning Break: Penis Reduction? Patient Suffering Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the 51˶ staff. Feb 18, 2015
Concierge Medicine Firm Found Liable for Doctor's Negligence Believed to be the first-ever judgment against a concierge organization. Feb 13, 2015
Stop DMARDs Before Orthopedic Surgery in RA Patients? Deft medication management is important. Feb 12, 2015
Predicting Death in Advanced Cancer Study offers clues to guide clinicians, families about end of life. Feb 10, 2015 video
Diabetes: Is This Tattoo Worth a 1,000 Needle Pricks? UCSD researchers report early results on a tattoo to measure blood sugar. Jan 27, 2015 video
Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes? Jan 23, 2015
Survival Boost from NP/PA Care in ICU? Association seen versus resident physicians in small study. Jan 22, 2015
Cosentyx Gets FDA Nod for Psoriasis Anti-IL17 drug secukinumab OK'd for moderate-to-severe disease. Jan 21, 2015
More Nurses May Mean Fewer Deaths in ICU High patient to nurse ratios may lead to more errors and fatal outcomes. Jan 21, 2015
When Docs Sue Their Own Hospital At issue: who has authority to hire, fire, and discipline staff physicians. Jan 19, 2015
10 Things ICUs Must Do Better Compassion tops the list by former Society of Critical Care Medicine president. Jan 19, 2015
CRC Regimens Give Survival Bump in Second Line Ramucirumab trial meets primary endpoint; famitinib offers respectable disease control rate. Jan 18, 2015 video
5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise. Jan 14, 2015
Onglyza OK in Renal Patients No increase in cardiovascular events seen in renally impaired SAVOR patients. Jan 14, 2015
More Drugs, Better Survival in Metastatic Colon Cancer Addition of oxaliplatin to FOLFIRI and bevacizumab doubled 5-year survival. Jan 13, 2015
Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists She shouldn't be allowed to say no when the benefits are so clear-cut, they say. Jan 13, 2015
CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don’t Take Heart Meds Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do? Jan 08, 2015
Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5 Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Jan 08, 2015
Reclast May Protect Bone by Reversing Marrow Fat Early zoledronic acid reverses bone marrow adipogenesis during estrogen deficiency. Jan 07, 2015
Meniscus Lesions Tied to Neuropathic Pain in Knee OA Meniscal extrusion on MRI significantly associated with increasing pain scores in knee osteoarthritis. Jan 02, 2015
