Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler
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FDA panel leans toward more robust breast implant surveillance
SILVER SPRING, MD. – Amid concern over two breast implant complications – anaplastic large cell lymphoma and autoimmune symptoms – an FDA panel...
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Occurrence of pulmonary embolisms in hospitalized patients nearly doubled during 2004-2015
NEW ORLEANS – National Inpatient Sample data showed that during 2004-2015 hospitalized U.S. patients with a PE diagnosis jumped by 80%.
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BP control slowed brain damage in elderly hypertensives
NEW ORLEANS – Elderly hypertensive patients treated to a systolic blood pressure of 130 mm Hg had less white matter disease progression than...
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AUGUSTUS: Dual surpasses triple therapy when AFib patients have PCI or ACS
NEW ORLEANS – Dropping aspirin but keeping anticoagulation with apixaban and antiplatelet clopidogrel was effective and associated with less...
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ACC, AHA release first cardiovascular disease primary prevention guideline
“We made the social determinants of health front and center. With many people, clinicians don’t ask whether they have access to healthy foods or a...
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Second-generation hydrogel surpasses platinum for brain aneurysm closure
HONOLULU – In a randomized trial, brain aneurysm embolization with next-generation hydrogel coil led to fewer recurrences than bare platinum wire...
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MI, strokes spike during 30 days after cancer diagnosis
HONOLULU – During the first 30 days after a cancer diagnosis, the incidence of an MI or stroke jumped nearly 500%.
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Higher blood pressure after thrombectomy links with bad stroke outcomes
HONOLULU – Observational data showed that ischemic stroke patients with systolic blood pressure above 158 mm Hg after thrombectomy had worse...
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Anxiety, depression compromise believability of drug-allergy testing
SAN FRANCISCO – Drug-allergy testing often produces a negative result, but some patients have a hard time believing...
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Epicutaneous milk immunotherapy can resolve pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis
SAN FRANCISCO – Open-label results show epicutaneous milk immunotherapy safely resolved nearly half the cases of...
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Poor asthma control during pregnancy trims live birth rate
SAN FRANCISCO – Pregnant women with poorly-controlled asthma had fewer live births, increased preterm deliveries,...
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Atopic dermatitis at 1 year links with persistent food allergies
SAN FRANCISCO – Infants with atopic dermatitis at 1 year old that persists showed an elevated prevalence of food...
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Age 1 food allergies often disappear by age 6
SAN FRANCISCO – Peanut or egg allergies diagnosed in 1-year-olds often were gone by the time the child turned 6.