The city’s Department of Health had issued an order requiring schools to prohibit unvaccinated students from attending. A yeshiva in…
Measles Outbreak: 1 Student Got 21 Others Sick
The city’s Department of Health had issued an order requiring schools to prohibit unvaccinated students from attending. A yeshiva in…
Measles Outbreak: 1 Student Got 21 Others Sick
The city’s Department of Health had issued an order requiring schools to prohibit unvaccinated students from attending. A yeshiva in…
How the global gag rule stifles free speech
A new journal article by researchers in the Global Health Justice and Governance program at the Columbia University Mailman School…
Experimental drug lowers serum phosphate in phase 3 trial of hemodialysis patients
In a phase 3 clinical trial, tenapanor significantly lowered elevated blood phosphate in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis, resulting in an…
Acute pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition with a variable clinical course. Diagnosis is based on clinical presentation, laboratory studies and…
The Medical Profession, Industry and Continuing Medical Education: Finding the Balance That’s Right for Patients
Provision and participation in formal external continuing medical education (CME) is costly. Employer or state support of CME is the…
New Drug Approvals in 2018 – Another Record Year!
In 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration approved 59 novel drugs. This all-time record was due primarily to the…
Swollen hands and “fist sign” in acromegaly
Clinical Communications to the Editor.
Maternal Implications of Breastfeeding – A Review for the Internist
Breastfeeding seems to be a low-cost intervention that provides both short- and long-term health benefits for the breastfeeding woman. Interventions…