Hospital Medicine News

• Cardiologist Hit With Additional Sexual Assault Charges been charged with four additional counts as more victims have come forward, police confirm.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Civil Rights Lawsuit Alleges Racism Caused Mother's Death A Black widower claims Cedar-Sinai ignored his wife's medical distress after her cesarean delivery because of the color of her skin.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Grit Your Teeth for a Lesser-Known Complication of Diabetes In addition to neuropathy, nephropathy, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease, tooth loss is a lesser-known potential complication of type 2 diabetes. A large meta-analysis quantifies the risk.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• How Successful Hospitals Reduce Maternal Morbidity A new study of hospitals in New York City identified several common themes associated with good performance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 When Medical 'Myths' Outlast the Evidence Long-held dogma engraved during training or early in the careers of many physicians can be difficult to overcome despite new evidence to the contrary.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• ESOC 2022 No Benefit to Early Tracheostomy in Severe Stroke The findings don't end debate on whether an early or standard approach to tracheostomy yields better outcomes, but does give clinicians a choice.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• Mysterious Hepatitis in Kids: What We Know and Don't Know Now Global reports of a mysterious hepatitis affecting young children continue to mount as health officials search for definitive answers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Novel Antibiotic Shows Promise for C diff Infection A novel antibiotic therapy for Clostridioides difficile infection, currently dubbed CRS3123, has demonstrated narrower selectivity and reduced bacterial derangement in the gut compared with other antibiotics.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Stanford Health Care's Residents Vote to Join Union Stanford's residents are participating in a growing national trend toward unionization in medical education.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Innocent Doc Sued After 'Secret' Med Expert Says Claim Has Merit In some states, plaintiffs can conceal the identity of experts used for affidavits of merit. Is this fair to physician defendants?
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Docs Find New and Better Ways to Cut EHR Input Time Physicians have been trying all types of methods to cut EHR input time and chart documentation. Here are some of their answers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 Surgery Handoffs Still Risky, but More Communication Can Help A panel at the 2022 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting discussed the continuing need to refine handoffs between surgery and hospital medicine, a point in care that is primed for potential errors.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Booster After Infection Adds Little Extra Benefit vs Omicron Among people who were previously infected with the coronavirus, a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna may not boost their protection against the Omicron variant of the virus, according to new data.
  Reuters Health Information, May 04, 2022
• Multi-State Opioid Crackdown Nets Indictment Against 7 Physicians Individuals across six states were charged with the illegal distribution of more than 115 million opioid pills, according to officials.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Alert FDA Clears Diagnostic Test for Early Alzheimer's The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first in vitro diagnostic test for early detection of Alzheimer's disease.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2022
• Label Changes Did Not Cut Accidental Acetaminophen Overdoses Although acetaminophen is safe at therapeutic doses, overdose entails a risk for acute liver failure. Clinicians should review patients' OTC medications, said the researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2022
• Massachusetts Takes Aim at Hospital Building Boom and Costs Other states are looking at whether Massachusetts' decade-old model of controlling health costs is worth emulating.
  Kaiser Health News, May 03, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 Don’t Let FOMI Lead to Antibiotic Overuse Fear of missing infections in patients is a leading driver of inappropriate use of antibiotics, one expert on stewardship said at the 2022 ACP meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• City Sees Its Healthcare Downsized as Hospital Awaits Demolition A 124-year-old hospital in a midsize Rust Belt city in Indiana will soon be torn down, despite protests from residents and city officials decrying the loss of local health services.
  Kaiser Health News, May 02, 2022
• Higher 'Chemical Restraint' Rates in Black Psych Patients in the ED Black patients presenting with psychiatric complaints to hospital emergency departments across the US are 63% more likely to receive chemical sedation than their White counterparts.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022