What’s new in infectious diseases from UpToDate
35% of UpToDate topics are updated every four months. The editors select a small number of the most important updates and share them via “What’s new” page. I selected the brief excerpts below from What’s new in infectious diseases: Antibiotics and warfarinAmong patients taking warfarin who require antimicrobial therapy for treatment of urinary tract infection, [...]
A Lifetime of Exercise Won’t Prevent Weight Gain
Does sticking to a regular exercise program year after year, decade after decade, keep you from gaining weight? According to a study just published in JAMA, the bad news answer is no. The only good news is that regular exercise is associated with less weight gain. Sound disappointing? To millions of Americans that think they [...]
EBM’s blind spot
The Cochrane Collaboration, arguably the exemplar of EBM, is a good place to illustrate EBM’s blind spot, a phrase used by Kimball Atwood at Science Based Medicine in his description of EBM’s inability to evaluate implausible health claims in the arena of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Here’s the listing of Cochrane CAM reviews. Few [...]
Pharmacologic options to decrease shivering in applied hypothermia
Via Pharmacotherapy.
Health Information Exchange Where Are the Roadblocks. The Scene Is As Hard In Australia. We Now Have Some Late Breaking PCEHR Standards News!
The following useful review of the barriers to Health Information Exchange appeared a few days ago. The Top 5 roadblocks HIEs face September 28, 2011 | GHIT Staff Just as young businesses of most any sort must circumvent myriad challenges to succeed, health providers are encountering multiple roadblocks in the implementation of HIEs. At the [...]
