Commentary
Commentary
Why Cardiac Biomarkers Don’t Help Predict Heart Disease
Physician discusses recent study findings that cardiac biomarkers will not likely help risk-stratify patients.
Commentary
Vacationing Doctors Fight to Revive a Drowned Child
Physician couple on vacation steps in to help boy who was unconscious in a pool.
Commentary
Nocturnal Hot Flashes and Alzheimer’s Risk
Study results provide further evidence to support the possibility that agents that reduce nighttime hot flashes (including hormone therapy) may...
Opinion
Molecular Classification of Endometrial Carcinomas
When The Cancer Genome Atlas performed genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic characterization of endometrial carcinomas, they identified four...
Commentary
Is Red Meat Healthy? Multiverse Analysis Has Lessons Beyond Meat
A specification curve analysis of a dataset provides a much broader picture; in the case of red meat, you see some significant results, but the...
Myth of the Month
Myth of the Month: Is Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury Real?
For CT scanning, it is OK to give contrast when needed. A conservative cutoff for contrast use would be a GFR less than 30.
Commentary
‘Green Whistle’ Provides Pain Relief -- But Not in the US
Methoxyflurane (Penthrox) relieves pain as well as standard care but has been banned in the United States by the FDA.
Commentary
Intermittent Fasting + HIIT: Fitness Fad or Fix?
Any lifestyle change is hard, but with persistence the changes become habits and, eventually, those habits do become pleasurable.
Commentary
Hereditary Amyloidosis: 5 Things to Know
A timely diagnosis requires clinicians to maintain a high index of suspicion, especially when evaluating patients with neuropathic symptoms.
Commentary
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Which Drug for Which Patient?
Many GLP-1 agonists are available in a diabetes version and a chronic weight management or obesity version.
Commentary
CRC Screening in Primary Care: The Blood Test Option
Last year, I concluded a commentary for this news...