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<乌鸦传媒>Crosslinks Unhelpful in Spinal Fusion for Scoliosis

Crosslinks didn't improve outcomes, but added bulk and cost.

<乌鸦传媒>Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

<乌鸦传媒>Psoriasis and Tonsillectomy: A Real Head Scratcher

Skin disease often improves after surgery but no one knows why.

<乌鸦传媒>Acne Improves Without Use of Antibiotics

Topical adapalene/benzoyl peroxide reduced lesion counts up to 75%.

<乌鸦传媒>Autism Therapy From a Robot?

Augmenting, not replacing, human therapists.

<乌鸦传媒>Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After 乌鸦传媒 Profile

Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay).

<乌鸦传媒>Bronchiolitis Guidelines: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater?

AAP's new guidelines favor complexity over familiar treatment options.

<乌鸦传媒>5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine

Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise.

<乌鸦传媒>Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists

She shouldn't be allowed to say no when the benefits are so clear-cut, they say.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Advisers Unimpressed by Nocdurna

Another setback for nocturia indication

<乌鸦传媒>JIA Parents Lose Significant Work Time

More missed work in the year before and after a child's diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

<乌鸦传媒>The Best Family Medicine Apps Physicians Should Download

Dr. Douglas Maurer, one of our family medicine physician writers at iMedicalApps, has created a great list of apps that are essential for family medicine physicians to download.

<乌鸦传媒>Benefits Pile Up for Epilepsy Surgery

When surgery is an option, studies suggest it's usually the best one.

<乌鸦传媒>Scoring System for Lung Cancer Screening Debuts

Radiologists to get tools for grading suspicious lesions.

<乌鸦传媒>Knee Surgery Linked to Higher OA Risk

Can meniscus repairs actually worsen joint damage?

<乌鸦传媒>Duplication Error May Make Giants

Novel mutation may underlie some cases of gigantism.

<乌鸦传媒>The 65-Minute Minute Clinic

CVS needs to reconsider its walk-in clinic business model.

<乌鸦传媒>A Role for the Microbiome for Arthritis in Kids?

Study links antibiotics to JIA risk.

<乌鸦传媒>The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner

Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime.

<乌鸦传媒>Are There Fewer 'Tasty' Meals After Bariatric Surgery?

Taste buds may be diminished by weight-loss surgery.

<乌鸦传媒>Case Study: Fecal Transplant Clears K. Pneumoniae

Treatment of teenage girl suggests another use for fecal microbiota transplant.

<乌鸦传媒>AAP: Implants, IUDs Best for Teen Birth Control

Pediatricians declare IUDs and progestin implants as birth control methods of choice for teens.

<乌鸦传媒>Azithromycin Linked to Belly Blockage in Infants

WASHINGTON -- Infants who received azithromycin (Zithromax) in the early days of life were at an increased risk for developing infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS), researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Kennedy Rebuts Critics on Thimerosal

On July 24, 乌鸦传媒 published a blog post on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s upcoming book on thimerosal in vaccines. Kennedy responded in an interview Tuesday.

<乌鸦传媒>Friday Feedback: Zero-Tolerance Employment Smoking Bans?

Should hospitals, schools, and companies refuse to hire smokers for teachers and healthcare providers?

<乌鸦传媒>FDA: Black Box Warning on Viscous Lidocaine for Teething

WASHINGTON -- Topical viscous lidocaine should not be used to treat infants' teething pain, the FDA said Thursday, emphasizing that teething pain generally needs no medicinal treatment.

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Highlights: VA, Cheerleaders, and Guns

CHICAGO -- Wrapping up a full agenda, the AMA agrees cheerleading is a sport, doctors outside the VA need to pitch in to help care for veterans, and e-cigarettes need to be regulated.

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Clamps Down on MOC, But Punts on Gun Regs

CHICAGO -- The AMA鈥檚 House of Delegates drew the line on this year's hot button topic -- maintenance of certification (MOC), saying it should not be mandatory, nor should it be a condition of licensure.

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Mulls Gun Violence CME

CHICAGO -- As the AMA's House of Delegates was meeting in a downtown hotel here, 29 local residents were shot and four killed within a 10-mile radius.

<乌鸦传媒>Lethal Injections, MOC, and E-Cigs on AMA Agenda

The American Medical Association is being asked to strengthen its ethical stance on physician participation in execution by extending its ban on doctors participating to include all health professionals.

<乌鸦传媒>Richard III: Shakespeare Blew It

Shakespeare got almost everything wrong about Richard III鈥檚 physical appearance.

<乌鸦传媒>Vitamin C May Save Newborn's Lungs When Mom Smokes

SAN DIEGO -- Damage to the lungs of babies born to mothers who smoked through pregnancy may be mitigated with vitamin C supplementation during gestation, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>'Bulletproof' Coffee May Hike Lipids

LAS VEGAS -- Spiking coffee with butter and coconut oil -- a concoction known as "bulletproof coffee" -- may be boosting hyperlipidemia in otherwise healthy patients, researchers said here.

<乌鸦传媒>The Day My Brother Became a Statistic

My brother would have turned 37 today. Instead, he became a statistic in 1995.

<乌鸦传媒>Fewer False Positives With ECG for Young Athletes

SAN FRANCISCO -- When screening high school athletes for cardiac abnormalities, an electrocardiogram (ECG) interpreted using athlete-specific criteria had a lower false-positive rate than a history and physical examination, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>Cutting Sugar May Ease IBS in Kids

CHICAGO -- A diet low in foods with certain sugars known as FODMAPs appears to reduce symptoms in children diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, researchers said here.

<乌鸦传媒>Dieting Shrinks Liver, Eases Gall Bladder Surgery

CHICAGO -- A 2-week-long restrictive diet appears to shrink obese patients鈥� livers enough to make gall bladder laparoscopic surgery quicker and easier, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>APA Meeting Highlights Mental Health Biology

NEW YORK CITY -- The biological basis for normal and abnormal mental function is emerging as a dominant theme in psychiatry research, and the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting that starts here Saturday won't be an exception.

<乌鸦传媒>Prime Time: No Annual Exams? No Way, SGIM Members Say

SAN DIEGO -- A recommendation from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) to do away with annual checkups for asymptomatic adults evoked strong emotions in its membership.

<乌鸦传媒>How To Get Medicare To Cover A Spa Trip

Good news for doctors who think their patients need a trip to the spa: Medicare will reimburse, with only two catches.

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