Iron Reduces Parasomnias in Children With Restless Legs Most with restless legs syndrome and night terrors do well with ferritin supplements Jun 12, 2015
Persistent Sleep Trouble Common in Kids With Brain Injuries TBI leaves children struggling for months with daytime sleepiness and problems sleeping at night Jun 12, 2015
Does This Make Me Fat, Or Is It My Genes? A pair of married Harvard docs debate the causes of the obesity epidemic Jun 09, 2015
'Sleeping In' Doesn't Make Up for Lost Sleep in Teens Sleep deprivation may affect work in schools and driving Jun 08, 2015
13 Apple Watch Medical Apps Made for Physicians Even though there are over 3,500 apps that have been customized for the Apple Watch, there are few that health providers can actually utilize for themselves Jun 01, 2015
Heavy Pot Smoking Linked With Stunted Growth Study adds to evidence for developmental abnormalities with teen marijuana use May 20, 2015
GI Events Do Not Explain Weight Loss With Saxenda No difference in weight loss between patients who had nausea and vomiting with diet drug, and those who didn't. May 18, 2015
Op-Ed: Penn Jillette's Weight Loss Wasn't Magic The magician recently lost 105 pounds, but he may not be a role model. May 12, 2015
Five Great Health Tracking Apps for Android Smartwatches Android Wear touts a variety of healthcare apps and more on Google Play that make the platform even more convenient for your day-to-day life. May 12, 2015
Antitibiotic-Chemo Combo Cuts Infection Risk in AML Incidence of Streptococcus viridans more than halved with prophylaxis. May 10, 2015
Mortality High in Systemic Juvenile Arthritis Death rates are highest among girls -- up to 50-fold greater than in the general population. May 01, 2015
'Brain Code' Speeds Meds to Neuro Patients Algorithm plus medication distribution system reverses herniation, lowers intracranial pressure. Apr 23, 2015
Idebenone Slows Respiratory Decline in DMD Antioxidant is thought to stimulate mitochondrial activity to preserve breathing ability. Apr 21, 2015
Slippery Slope: Diet Drugs No Help for Heart In another edition of the Slippery Slope series examining use of surrogate endpoints in drug approvals, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel find diet drugs are approved without solid evidence of benefits, but with hints of harm. Apr 19, 2015
Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market Makers of diet drugs spent more than $60 million on payments to doctors, organized medicine, and lobbyists to get their drugs approved. Apr 19, 2015
What the Evidence Really Says About PUFAs Another look at the supposed benefits of corn oil. Apr 14, 2015
Endo Apps: The DIY Artificial Pancreas Type 1 diabetics and their parents find solutions for closed-loop control. Apr 06, 2015
Crosslinks Unhelpful in Spinal Fusion for Scoliosis Crosslinks didn't improve outcomes, but added bulk and cost. Mar 27, 2015
Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors' ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture." Mar 26, 2015
Psoriasis and Tonsillectomy: A Real Head Scratcher Skin disease often improves after surgery but no one knows why. Mar 24, 2015
Acne Improves Without Use of Antibiotics Topical adapalene/benzoyl peroxide reduced lesion counts up to 75%. Mar 23, 2015
Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After Profile Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay). Mar 05, 2015
Bronchiolitis Guidelines: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater? AAP's new guidelines favor complexity over familiar treatment options. Feb 11, 2015
5 Steps in Talking With Patients About Alternative Medicine Ask, explain, respect, collaborate, compromise. Jan 14, 2015
Forcing Teen to Have Chemo Not Troubling to Ethicists She shouldn't be allowed to say no when the benefits are so clear-cut, they say. Jan 13, 2015
JIA Parents Lose Significant Work Time More missed work in the year before and after a child's diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Dec 18, 2014
The Best Family Medicine Apps Physicians Should Download Dr. Douglas Maurer, one of our family medicine physician writers at iMedicalApps, has created a great list of apps that are essential for family medicine physicians to download. Dec 16, 2014
Benefits Pile Up for Epilepsy Surgery When surgery is an option, studies suggest it's usually the best one. Dec 08, 2014
Scoring System for Lung Cancer Screening Debuts Radiologists to get tools for grading suspicious lesions. Dec 05, 2014
Knee Surgery Linked to Higher OA Risk Can meniscus repairs actually worsen joint damage? Dec 04, 2014
A Role for the Microbiome for Arthritis in Kids? Study links antibiotics to JIA risk. Nov 18, 2014 video
The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime. Nov 07, 2014
Are There Fewer 'Tasty' Meals After Bariatric Surgery? Taste buds may be diminished by weight-loss surgery. Nov 07, 2014
Case Study: Fecal Transplant Clears K. Pneumoniae Treatment of teenage girl suggests another use for fecal microbiota transplant. Oct 13, 2014
AAP: Implants, IUDs Best for Teen Birth Control Pediatricians declare IUDs and progestin implants as birth control methods of choice for teens. Sep 29, 2014
