Conference Highlights: ACEP17
Discharging PE Patients from the ED Evidence indicates that EDs are overcrowded, that length of...
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3D Printing a Q Fever-Infected Aortic Aneurysm
Aortic infection is a rare, but severe condition. Primary infection with Coxiella burnetii...
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#PWChat – Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust
Join us Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00pm ET for PART II of our live, interactive tweetchat with...
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Bringing 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands to Third-World Countries
3D printing is commonly used in first-world countries. However, 3D printing can be of added value...
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2017 Diabetes Facts & Statistics
Diabetes costs the U.S. economy over $245 billion per year, making it the country’s most expensive...
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Addressing Sugar Intake to Achieve Weight Loss
For over 20 years, efforts to stop or reverse soaring rates of obesity in the United States have...
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Beyond Late Night Calls: What Keeps Physicians Up at Night?
In television and movie medical dramas, there’s always that one scene in which a physician...
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Conference Highlights: ACAAI 2017
Low Adoption of Peanut Guidelines Recently released guidelines from the NIH recommend that...
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#PWChat – Exercise as Medicine: PART II
Join us Wednesday, November 1 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD,...
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Hospitals, Third Parties, and Physicians: Opposing Roles in Containing Healthcare Costs
Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type...
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3D Printing Shows Talocalcaneal Joint Very Well!
A surgical resident used the above 3D-printed calcaneal fracture to gain more insight in the...
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#PWChat – Ketamine for Depression: Exciting but Controversial
Join us Thursday, November 16 at 9:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Steven P....
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Why Actionable Data Is Crucial in the Operating Room
Today’s hospitals face relentless pressure to improve quality, especially in the operating room....
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Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2017
Comorbidities Screening in HIV Patients For a study, researchers analyzed medical records of HIV...
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Skin-Prick Testing for Allergic Rhinitis
According to published data, allergic rhinitis is the most common form of allergy worldwide,...
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PWChat: How Mindset Affects Physical Health
Join us Wednesday, October 11 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Barbara Cox,...
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Introducing a New Blog on 3D Printing in Medicine
I’m a surgical resident in training and PhD-candidate in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital,...
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#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine PART 2: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References
Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis,...
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#PWChat – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise
Join us Wednesday, October 4 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD,...
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Older Cancer Patients
The incidence of cancer increases with age, creating new challenges as the global population grows...
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