Geriatrics
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Three things hospitalists ‘do for no reason’... and should stop
Dr. Leonard Feldman, a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has presented a list of usually unnecessary hospitalist practices for 5...
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Early antiarrhythmic drugs boost survival in shock-refractory cardiac arrest
Key clinical point: Routine use of injectable amiodarone or lidocaine by paramedics in cases of shock-refractory VF/VT out-of-hospital cardiac...
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VIDEO: Unraveling Alzheimer’s pathogenesis while testing lifestyle interventions
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VIDEO: Fire and Ice - Which catheter ablation approach is best in AF?
Hailed as a win for freeze technology.
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Hospitalists pitch value ideas in Shark Tank
Hospitalists looking for ways to reduce costs and make their patients safer might learn strategies from the TV game show “Shark Tank.”
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Losmapimod failed to beat placebo in acute MI trial
Key clinical point: The anti-inflammatory drug losmapimod missed its composite primary endpoint in a phase 3 study of patients with acute...
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VIDEO: New ACC consensus guidance addresses nonstatin therapies
A new expert consensus decision pathway for the use of nonstatin therapies to lower cholesterol in high-risk patients released this week by the...
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Prepsychosis links with elevated metabolic syndrome
Key clinical point: People at high risk for a first psychosis episode had an increased prevalence of certain metabolic syndrome components,...
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Heart attack patients getting younger, fatter, and less healthy
Key clinical point: Despite advances in understanding heart disease prevention, patients with heart attack are younger and less healthy than they...