Perspectives
Commentary
Bad blood: Could brain bleeds be contagious?
Would recipients who got blood from individuals who later on had brain bleeds, have brain bleeds themselves? The answer is yes, though with an...
Commentary
Disenfranchised grief: What it looks like, where it goes
Disenfranchised grief, the grief that is hard to share and often seems wrong to feel in the first place, can be triggered in many situations.
Commentary
Barbie has an anxiety disorder
What happens when an entire global population is exposed simultaneously to trauma?
Commentary
What can you do during a mass shooting? This MD found out
We were seeing high-velocity gunshot wounds that I’ve seen for 20 years in the Army. I know how to fix them. But there wasn’t a single thing I...
Commentary
First-line therapy in T2D: Has metformin been ‘dethroned’?
As is often the case in medicine, the answer depends on the individual patient and clinical situation.
Opinion
Do you P.U.I.?
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Commentary
Who owns your genes?
The assumption of any sane person would be that he or she owns his or her own genes. I mean, how dumb a question is that?
Commentary
The surprising occupations with higher-than-expected ovarian cancer rates
This is how these types of studies work; they tend to raise more questions than they answer.
Rheum for Action
In-office infusions at risk with new Medicare Part B reimbursement recommendation
New recommendations from MedPAC that would lower reimbursements for some Part B drugs threaten to potentially put some practices with infusion...
Feature
Should you dismiss a difficult patient?
Even if a reason seems legitimate, that doesn’t make it legal.