Disease

For patients undergoing aortic valve surgery and looking for the “right” hospital these are more than academic questions. In fact, which hospital is best depends a lot of how long a survival you are looking for.

One month from her 93rd birthday and five feet tall (when standing on a 3" step), my mother does not appear to be especially threatening. Yet, as my family would find out, bioterrorists can come in small packages. 

Over time as our understanding and instrumentation have changed and improved, we have reframed the villain from particulate matter as a whole to its various components.

“The hygiene hypothesis suggests that our immune system works best when it has been exposed to a diversity of foreign others and that population measures of hygiene, such as running water, waste disposal systems have not so much

The researchers made use of a longitudinal survey, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) involving four regions in the Midwest and Eastern US.

"Timely patient discharge requires a coordinated effort among surgeons, nurses, case managers, physical therapists, and others.

Diabetes is a poster-child for many of today’s health concerns, an increasing incidence, the frequent associated with a sedentary lifestyle and poor nutritional choices, increasing out-of-pocket spending, and a rising toll on healthcare services.

Here is a question. When you plot alcohol use against the risk of cancer, is the resulting curve J-shaped, suggesting that at low levels of consumption, alcohol may be protective?

Genome-Wide Association Studies, GWAS, look at the genomic milieu, but the presence or absence of a gene rarely tells the whole story. Genes, need to be transcribed, and ultimately metabolic products are created.

One of the significant problems for physicians is in translating research and guidelines into the care of their patients.