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CulinaryRx: How We Treated the Hypertensive Patient

Diet recommendations for a 54-year-old man with high blood pressure.

Slippery Slope: Diet Drugs No Help for Heart

In another edition of the Slippery Slope series examining use of surrogate endpoints in drug approvals, 番茄社区 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel find diet drugs are approved without solid evidence of benefits, but with hints of harm.

Slippery Slope: Fen-Phen Users Recall a 'Miracle' Turned Nightmare

Fen-phen use was linked to heart valve damage, as these two cases illustrate.

Physician/Writer: Dual and Dueling Responsibilities

The ethics of doctors writing about patients.

Excerpt From 'The Digital Doctor'

An insider's view of the digitization of healthcare delivery.

Endo Apps: The DIY Artificial Pancreas

Type 1 diabetics and their parents find solutions for closed-loop control.

What Makes an Opioid Stronger or Weaker Than Morphine?

CDC classification of stronger, weaker, and morphine-equivalent opioids is confusing.

Doctors, Stop Sticking Your Patients So Often

UCSF's Think Twice, Stick Once campaign aims to curb unnecessary venipunctures.

Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

The Medium Is The Message: Second Study Confirms Mediums' Accuracy

A journal publishes another paper reporting that officially certified mediums are accurate.

Reversing Abortion Pill: Can It Be Done?

A new group of anti-abortion physicians may have "the antidote" for RU-486.

Endo Apps: How to Get Useful Glucose Meter Data

There are several options for downloading and interpreting important data from diabetes patients.

FDA Advisers Unimpressed by Nocdurna

Another setback for nocturia indication

Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5

Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

Scoring System for Lung Cancer Screening Debuts

Radiologists to get tools for grading suspicious lesions.

10 Ways Primary Care Practices Can Improve Care

High quality care and cost-cutting aren't mutually exclusive.

The 65-Minute Minute Clinic

CVS needs to reconsider its walk-in clinic business model.

FDA Panel Wants Safer Epidural Steroid Shots

Majority votes to end epidural injections with "particulate" steroids.

The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner

Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime.

Are There Fewer 'Tasty' Meals After Bariatric Surgery?

Taste buds may be diminished by weight-loss surgery.

Two Gastric Balloons May Be Better than One

A dual-balloon intragastric device helped patients shed more pounds.

That's Not Chronic Lyme, It's Cancer

Three case reports demonstrate the risks of "assuming that patients have chronic Lyme disease."

Genetic Factors Tied to Violent Behaviors

Account for up to 10% of extreme violent crime, authors say.

Insulin and Insulina: Bridging the Gap

Physicians need to be aware of patients' beliefs about medicinal plants.

Emanuel: Did I Say Die at 75?

Death at age 75 was a "slightly random number," but Ezekiel Emanuel will just say No to statins, antihypertensives, and antibiotics after age 75.

Aphrodisiac Aids Genetic Type 2 Diabetes

About 4% of diabetes patients may benefit from yohimbine.

Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... '

Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine.

Portenoy Opioid Talk Sparks Controversy

Opioid advocate Russell Portenoy's invitation to an upcoming NIH workshop is under fire.

MOC Watch: Debunking ABIM Pass Rate Myths

In this guest post, the American Board of Internal Medicine explains what determines pass rates for the Maintenance of Certification exam.

Ebola Response: Slowed by a 'Perfect Storm' of Setbacks

WASHINGTON -- The world was taken by surprise by the West Africa Ebola outbreak and has been scrambling ever since to catch up, with many setbacks and only a few bright spots in the picture, international experts said at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Doctor's Memoir Exposes Dark Side of Medicine

Sandeep Jauhar puts his life on stark display to illustrate harmful financial intrusions into medicine in his newest book.

Patients Want Diabetes-Friendly Meals on the Menu

ORLANDO -- It's easy to find heart-healthy or vegetarian-friendly meals labeled on restaurant menus, but diabetes patients are often left in the dark about options best suited to them.

Morning Break: The B.O. Talk, No Love for Niacin

Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the 番茄社区 staff.

Not Your Parent's School Nurse

Schools and health systems are forming partnerships to better integrate their services, and some school health professionals are gaining access to students' electronic health records.

AMA Mulls Gun Violence CME

CHICAGO -- As the AMA's House of Delegates was meeting in a downtown hotel here, 29 local residents were shot and four killed within a 10-mile radius.

Lethal Injections, MOC, and E-Cigs on AMA Agenda

The American Medical Association is being asked to strengthen its ethical stance on physician participation in execution by extending its ban on doctors participating to include all health professionals.

Edible Dynamite, Cockney Rhyming Medical Slang: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

How To Tell Fake Neck Pain From Real: The Pain Medicine News Report

A regular update on what鈥檚 new in surgery from our friends at Pain Medicine News.

'Bulletproof' Coffee May Hike Lipids

LAS VEGAS -- Spiking coffee with butter and coconut oil -- a concoction known as "bulletproof coffee" -- may be boosting hyperlipidemia in otherwise healthy patients, researchers said here.

Depot Drug Keeps Schizophrenics Out of Jail

NEW YORK CITY -- Schizophrenia patients who had recently been released from jail were less likely to be rearrested or otherwise fail treatment when they took a depot antipsychotic drug in a randomized trial.

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