New guidelines for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
Published in Stroke. Open access.
Cardiac amyloidosis review
Via Cardiology in Review.
Vaccines Narcolepsy and Sudden Infant Death
As if there weren’t already enough to be concerned about with the extensive use of vaccinations in modern health care, a recent article from Mail Online notes that the swine flu vaccine is now acknowledged to, rarely, cause narcolepsy. New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it ‘hit by sudden sleep syndrome’ A [...]
Childbearing May Increase Risk Of Hormone Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer In African-American Women
African-American women are at higher risk for hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult subtypes to treat, but this risk could be ameliorated somewhat by breast-feeding their children. “African-American women are more likely to have had a greater number of full-term births and less likely to have breast-fed their babies,” said Julie Palmer, [...]
Article review: EM in medical schools
Similar to JAMA, which publishes an annual publication focusing on Medical Education, the Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) journal just published a AEM-CORD/CDEM supplement focusing on EM education. I was fortunate to be involved with one of the papers published in this supplement. This paper, written on behalf of the Clerkship Directors in EM (CDEM) and [...]
