Kids' Illness Spike Has CDC Tracking Rare Enterovirus
(MedPage Today) -- The CDC still is trying to gauge the extent of what might be a large outbreak of a rare enterovirus causing severe respiratory illness among children. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - September 8, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
FDA Greenlights Early AKI Test
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved a urine-based biomarker test that can tell if a hospitalized patient is at immediate risk of developing acute kidney injury, the agency announced. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - September 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Tweet of the Week: What Does Hospital Food Look Like Around the World?
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to another edition of the MedPage Today Tweet of the Week! Every Friday, the editorial team highlights its favorite 140-character contribution from the healthcare twittersphere. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - September 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Replacing an Ambulance With a Station Wagon
(MedPage Today) -- Emergency services personnel in Centennial, Colo. are experimenting with using a station wagon to respond to some less urgent emergency calls. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - September 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Urgent Care Centers Opening For Mental lllnesses
(MedPage Today) -- Mental health urgent care centers, also known as crisis stabilization units, are opening throughout California in response to the shortage of psychiatric beds and the increase in patients with mental illnesses showing up at hospital emergency rooms with nowhere else to go. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - August 29, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
ESC: Will There Really Be a PARADIGM Shift?
BARCELONA (MedPage Today) -- A heart failure drug that may reduce hospitalization and death rates dominates the buzz leading up to the European Society of Cardiology meeting, which opens here on Saturday. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - August 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Newman's Notes: Sepsis Mission Impossible (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- In an exception to the rule, Newman highlights a sepsis chart review study worth paying attention to. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - August 23, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
FDA Approves Long-Acting COPD Inhaler
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved another once-daily bronchodilator, olodaterol (Striverdi Respimat), for maintenance treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - August 2, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Fear: How Statistics Can Spin Out of Control (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Loss of consciousness may be statistically associated with clinically significant TBI, but that doesn't make it useful for decision-making, argues Rory Spiegel, MD. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 29, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Prediction Update: Infectious Disease
(MedPage Today) -- In January, we asked noted infectious diseases specialists what they thought would be the most important development in the field in 2014. Now, at the half-year mark, we check in again with them to ask how their predictions are holding up. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 29, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Morning Break: Pot Edibles, Obamacare (Partly) Canceled
(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 18, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Striking a Nerve: 'Aware of How Much We Don't Know'
(MedPage Today) -- Here's how last weekend's American Academy of Neurology conference on sports concussions went, as tweeted by headache neurologist Joshua Cohen, MD, MPH, of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 14, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
AOSSM: Concussion Genes and ACL Autografts
(MedPage Today) -- Studies presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting revealed a possible genetic connection between concussions and recovery time, and differences in reconstructed anterior cruciate ligaments failure rates based on grafting tissue type. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 13, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
The Latest In Medical Convenience: ER Appointments
(MedPage Today) -- In an era of increased competition driven by the nation's Affordable Care Act, hospital executives around the country are hoping online appointments will attract patients eager to avoid long waits in a crowded and often chaotic environment. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 8, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Summer Changing for the Worse
(MedPage Today) -- Climate change is making summer no picnic, according to a nonprofit environmental group. (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - July 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
