ECG Challenge: Fever After Oral Surgery in a Cardiac Patient A 67-year-old with a history of mitral valve prolapse visits the emergency department after oral surgery, feeling feverish. What does his ...

ADA 2025 Stem Cell-Derived Islets Still Producing Insulin at 1 Year One-year data suggest allogeneic stem cell-derived islet-cell therapy could become a future option for those with type 1 diabetes in ...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Is Highly Preventable: Here’s How Dr JoAnn Manson discusses a recent report that addressed the modifiable risk factors for sudden cardiac arrest and the percentage of cases that ...

The concept of endoluminal treatment for GERD is appealing because it has the potential to shift the focus of treatment from symptom control to disease control, while also offering the possibility of ...

Dr Robert Motzer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center reviews key studies on renal cell carcinoma (RCC) presented at the 2020 ESMO Virtual Congress, including the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER trial ...

Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape. Except for a 3-year period in the 1990s brought about by strict health maintenance organization (HMO) practices, healthcare ...

Treating MRSA Skin and Soft Tissue Infections . Early this year, the Infectious Diseases Society of America published its first-ever recommendations for the treatment of infections caused by ...

It's upper respiratory infection (URI) season. The following is a clinical scenario drawn from my own practice. I'll tell you what I plan to do, but I'm most interested in crowdsourcing a response ...

Better Nurse Staffing and Higher Education Levels Increase Outcomes of Patients With Serious Mental Illness. The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is part of the National Institutes of ...

An 80-year-old woman with a history of hypertension—treated with amlodipine and a beta-blocker—presents to her primary care provider for a routine physical examination. Her blood pressure is ...

With the high prevalence of burnout among medical residents well documented and linked to consequences that range from medical errors to suicide, the pressure is on residency programs to come up with ...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract. Objective–To examine the impact of withdrawing rosiglitazone and ramipril medication on diabetes incidence after closeout of the Diabetes REduction Assessment with ...