The Tahoe Avalanche Tragedy: What Were They Thinking?
(MedPage Today) — Today, I write with a heavy heart. I grew up in Sacramento and have spent much of my life skiing the Sierra Nevada mountains that ring Lake...
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Method for More Anatomically Targeted CPR Comes Up Short
(MedPage Today) — The concept of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) guidance during CPR hit a wall when tested for the first time in a randomized trial. For patients who were in...
Brain Waves During Sleep Predict Dementia Risk
(MedPage Today) — A brain age index based on microstructures of sleep electroencephalography (EEG) data predicted dementia risk, a meta-analysis showed. Across five cohorts and 7,105 participants, each 10-year increase...
'The 1980s Called': CMS Rule Aims to Phase Out Fax...
(MedPage Today) — So long, fax machines — we hardly knew ye. “The 1980s called, and they want their fax machines back,” Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, administrator of CMS, said...
Child's 'Tail-Like' Limb Had to Be Surgically Removed
(MedPage Today) — A 19-month-old girl was born with a “tail-like” appendage on her lower back that grew larger over time and made walking independently difficult. A physical exam revealed...
RFK Jr. Touts Food as Medicine. He Often Overstates the...
(MedPage Today) — In the Trump administration’s campaign to promote healthy eating, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not stopped at his slogan urging people to “eat real food”...
Jehovah's Witnesses Transfusion Policy Now Allows Storage, Use of One's...
(MedPage Today) — Leaders of Jehovah’s Witnesses are modifying their prohibition on receiving blood transfusions on religious grounds, now allowing members to decide whether to allow their own blood to...
'If You Wait That Long, You Will Have Waited Too...
(MedPage Today) — “If you wait that long, you will have waited too long.” — Lori Handy, MD, MSCE, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, responding to the FDA Commissioner’s...
Online Doctor Reviews Need to Go
(MedPage Today) — I suppose I understand why online patient reviews of physicians exist. Patients have told me they provide helpful information when searching for a new physician. Physicians have...
Gene Therapy Supply Runs Out, Company Warns of Treatment Delays
(MedPage Today) — Etranacogene dezaparvovec (Hemgenix), the only commercially available gene therapy for hemophilia B, is temporarily unavailable, according to maker CSL Behring. In a letter addressed to the hemophilia...
