Patients with recent-onset, symptomatic atrial fibrillation commonly undergo immediate restoration of sinus rhythm by means of pharmacologic or electrical cardioversion.…
The RACE to Treat Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department
Atrial fibrillation is an increasingly common reason for presentation to the emergency department, representing nearly 0.5% of all such visits.…
Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer
In 2015, Ms. M. a 60-year-old, unemployed, uninsured black woman, presented to the emergency department at a Chicago community hospital…
Making digital tissue imaging better
A low-tech problem troubles the high-tech world of digital pathology imaging: There are no reliable standards for the quality of…
General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced…
Diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
Researchers have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can treat and reverse the progression of heart failure in…
Researchers map sound, response and reward anticipation in mouse brain
Neuroscientists report that two areas of the mouse brain combine representations of what is heard and anticipated, guiding behavior that…
Intentions attributed to other people change how we see their actions
Our apparent ability to see the intent in other’s behavior leads us to cling to our false judgements.
Adding human touch to unchatty chatbots may lead to bigger letdown
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be…
Decline in measles vaccination is causing a preventable global resurgence of the disease
In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States. Today, the US and many other countries are…