Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, board certified general internist at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, cofounder of Updates in Slow Medicine, and host of the Healthy Skeptic, MD podcast,…
Pharmacomechanical thrombolysis can be particularly effective in mitigating post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) in younger patients, as demonstrated by data from the ATTRACT trial.
The use of antibiotics disrupts the ecology of the microbiome in three important ways. First, antibiotic therapy can lead to secondary infection, as in antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by…
Multiple clinical trials are currently underway examining the possible synergistic effects of combining chemotherapy with immunotherapies for patients with bladder cancer and other metastases.
James Geiger, MD, professor of surgery at University of Michigan, and his colleague, professor of engineering, Shorya Awtar, have developed a low-tech, and relatively inexpensive surgical tool that…
Probiotics can both restore and establish the microbiome after disruption by antibiotics. When the microbiome is compromised by antibiotic therapy, resulting in conditions such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea, probiotics…
Each month we present you with the latest featured study from the research teams at JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association. Check out the video for intriguing…
Neural networks (a.k.a. deep learning algorithms) can be used to teach computers to distinguish various types of disease via prior analysis of massive amounts of clinical data.
