A new commentary piece in the Journal of General Internal Medicine discusses ten potential pitfalls of integrating smartphones with clinical care. The articles covers topics such as faulty monologues, surrounding neglect and myth of dependability, to name a few. The authors state that the purpose of...

Previous evidence has linked hospitalization to an increased risk of diagnosis of dementia. A new study in Critical Care identifies “diagnoses or events during a hospitalization requiring critical care that are associated with a subsequent dementia diagnosis in the elderly.” The study found...

Massachusetts drug producer Ameridose is recalling many of its products due to concerns over sterility. The company is part of the same family of drug producers as New England Compounding Center, whose contaminated steroid medications have been responsible for a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis....