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Adverse Events in the Hospital Setting: How Safe Is Your Operating Room? Commentary on a study on in-hospital adverse events, published June 2008 in Quality and Safety in Health Care.
Commentary, August 2008
Supplementation and AMD: An Update of AREDS and AREDS2 Dr. Emily Chew reviews the latest findings concerning diet and the risk of AMD from AREDS as well as the ongoing AREDS2.
Expert Column, August 2008
Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain and Myocardial Infarction Dr. Amal Mattu reviews the AHA's recent scientific statement regarding the management of cocaine-associated chest pain and myocardial infarction and provides key takeaways for emergency clinicians.
Commentary, August 2008
CME EGFR Inhibitors in Advanced Stage NSCLC: Latest Principles and Practice Is there a new role for EGFR inhibitors in the treatment of lung cancer? In this expert column, Dr. Neil and Dr. Heist review the latest data.
Expert Column, August 2008
When Is the Optimal Time to Administer Antibiotics Prior to Surgery? Commentary on a study on the timing of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis, published June 2008 in the Annals of Surgery.
Commentary, August 2008
Antihypertensive ARB Therapy Protects Children and Against Alzheimer's -- But What About Endothelin Antagonists or Genes? How should we treat the very young? Or the elderly with cognitive challenges? New data provide answers, support ARBs, equivocate on endothelin antagonists, and fail to find genes for salt restriction.
Expert Column, August 2008
Biologic Therapy for Crohn's Disease: Clinical Experience in Patients Who Have Had Previous Anti-TNF Treatment Remo Panaccione, MD, FRCP, explores the issues and available evidence in regard to the management of Crohn's disease patients with prior anti-TNF experience.
Expert Column, August 2008
CME/CE Albuterol vs Montelukast for Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm in Children: A Best Evidence Review This Best Evidence Review weighs in on a study from Pharmacotherapy determining the better choice for preventing exercise-induced asthma.
Commentary, August 2008
Predicting Which Pediatric Bronchiolitis Patients Can Be Safely Discharged From the ED A study published in the April 2008 issue of Pediatrics looks at a model which helps clinicians determine which patients can be safely discharged.
Commentary, August 2008
Escherichia coli Sepsis and Ampicillin Resistance in Neonates A study published in the April 2008 issue of Pediatrics looks at changes in rates of antibiotic resistance at one US hospital over 17 years.
Commentary, August 2008
Nurses Journal Scan, July 2008 Many important topics are covered this month including sleep apnea, suicide in the elderly, massage in osteoarthritis, advanced practice nursing, and burnout and staffing in perioperative nurses.
Commentary, August 2008
Contrast Media Reactions Pose Serious Risk of Nephropathy Iodinated contrast media perform an important function in imaging, but they also can increase the risk for morbidity and mortality due to nephropathy.
Expert Column, August 2008
When and How Should Clinicians Diagnose Secondary Hypertension? True secondary hypertension represents only about 5% of patients -- in his video blog Dr. Black presents detailed criteria for how clinicians can efficiently assess its possible causes.
Commentary, August 2008
First-line Treatment of Triple-Negative and Basal-Like Breast Cancers Drs. Bao and Wolff discuss the distinctions between these overlapping tumor phenotypes as well as recent data on treatment options.
Ask the Expert, August 2008
A New Clinical Score for Assessing Acute Asthma Severity in Children A study published in the April 2008 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics looks at the effectiveness of the PRAM score in assessing children 2-17 years old.
Commentary, August 2008
Which Residency Programs Support Research? As someone who is preparing to be an MD/PhD, how do I go about looking for a residency with an environment that also sees medical research as a part of my training?
Ask the Expert, August 2008
Mumps Resurgence in the United States A study published in the April 10 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine looks at the epidemiology of recent mumps outbreaks in the United States.
Commentary, August 2008
Sun, Pigmentation, Genetic Variations, and the Risk for Skin Cancer The authors discuss important new papers reporting on the relationships of genetic markers to risk for skin cancer.
Commentary, August 2008
What Do Pathologic Skin Lesions in Elderly Patients Look Like? What are some of the most common premalignant and malignant lesions seen in older patients, and what do they look like?
Ask the Expert, August 2008
Does Breast-Feeding Improve Child Cognitive Development? Dr. George Lundberg discusses how breast-feeding may improve child cognitive development.
Commentary, August 2008

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Does Breast-Feeding Improve Child Cognitive Development? Dr. George Lundberg discusses how breast-feeding may improve child cognitive development.
Commentary, August 2008

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