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Thought-provoking perspectives from leading health and medical experts

The Medium Is The Message: Second Study Confirms Mediums' Accuracy

A journal publishes another paper reporting that officially certified mediums are accurate.

The NNT: An Overhyped and Confusing Statistic

Some pitfalls of summing up evidence with Numbers Needed to Treat.

Bronchiolitis Guidelines: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater?

AAP's new guidelines favor complexity over familiar treatment options.

Frostbite: How to Classify and Treat It

In the ED, this is most often seen in the homeless.

10 Questions: Jenny Jaque, MD

Ob/gyn focuses on women's health issues inside and outside of the clinic.

The Five Best Apps for Echocardiography

Echocardiography is a frequently used tool in the evaluation of a wide range of cardiac diseases.

CardioBuzz: Why Patients Don鈥檛 Take Heart Meds

Faced with patients' instinctive aversion to pills, even after MI, what's a cardiologist to do?

The Best Family Medicine Apps Physicians Should Download

Dr. Douglas Maurer, one of our family medicine physician writers at iMedicalApps, has created a great list of apps that are essential for family medicine physicians to download.

Is an Expensive New Antibiotic Worth the Cost?

Once-weekly dalbavancin might reduce admissions, but it introduces new concerns.

Three Less Expensive UpToDate Alternatives

Recently at iMedicalApps, we received a few requests from a mixture of physicians and medical librarians asking us to look into alternatives to UpToDate. The requesters wanted to know if there were legitimate alternatives, and if the alternatives were less expensive.

These Men Had Their Penises Broken, Cut, and Shot

Industrial accidents, self-inflicted genital mutilation, and gunshots: It's dangerous out there for the male member.

The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner

Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime.

Three Wearables that Could Change Afib Screening

They're durable, low-profile, and accurate.

That's Not Chronic Lyme, It's Cancer

Three case reports demonstrate the risks of "assuming that patients have chronic Lyme disease."

Is That an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?

Sex in the office, fellatio, and menage a trois: Researchers probe sexual fantasies.

Top 10 Cardiology Apps for iPhone & Android

In this week's Med Tech Review:

Emanuel: Did I Say Die at 75?

Death at age 75 was a "slightly random number," but Ezekiel Emanuel will just say No to statins, antihypertensives, and antibiotics after age 75.

Taming the In-Basket

We need to help our programmers send us only the messages we really need to see.

Wait, What? Medium Was Accurate, Says Peer-Reviewed Study

Sometimes, blog posts write themselves. Others are written by dead doctors with the help of a medium.

CardioBuzz: Toward the $500 an Hour Physician

In this guest blog, Mark Jay Zucker, MD, JD, an attorney and transplant cardiologist at Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark, explains why he thinks it's time to talk money.

Are Your Patients Using Fake Names?

A case study in the American Journal of Medicine poses a vexing question many healthcare professionals have faced: What should you do when your patients use fraudulent names?

App Claims to Use iPhone Camera, Mic to Monitor BP

Learning How to Deal With Egos

Managing physicians need to take egos -- including their own -- into account when resolving conflicts among staff, says consultant Rosemarie Nelson.

'This Page Left Intentionally Blank'

Blank pages in correspondence from insurance companies are just an emblem of the endless waste and inefficiencies built into our healthcare system, says internist Fred Pelzman.

The Day My Brother Became a Statistic

My brother would have turned 37 today. Instead, he became a statistic in 1995.

What's Your Favorite Doctor Joke?

When some patients groan, it's in laughter, not pain.

Which Bullets Are Safe in an MRI?

Don't go ballistic -- only steel bullets will cause problems in MRI, says a study of 39 kinds of the projectiles.

CardioBuzz: More Money Needed for Heart Research?

The NIH dedicates a lot of money for research into heart disease and stroke, but it still might not be enough, a new study suggested.

10 Questions: E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH

What's the biggest barrier to practicing medicine today? That's just the first of the 10 Questions the 51成人动漫 staff is asking leading clinicians and researchers to get their personal views on their chosen profession. In this series we share their uncensored responses. Here, answers from pulmonary and critical care expert E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH.

What Makes a Patient High Risk?

We all know a high-risk patient when we see one, says internist Fred Pelzman, but defining what makes a patient high risk is tricky business -- and may become necessary in these days of registries and data-driven medicine.

Paging Dr. Colbert: How Not To Drive Traffic to Your Website

A doctor tries paying bloggers to endorse his supplement-hawking website.

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