Recent Updates

• Women and Heart Attacks: A Tendency to Delay Treatment

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 9th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  What is it about the female that makes us more likely to delay receiving health care?  When it comes to heart attacks, researchers are suggesting that the tendency for women to wait longer than men to seek care could...

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• Stoke Care: When Seconds (or at Least Minutes) Count

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 8th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  It appears from a Wall Street Journal article that hospitals are beginning to recognize and solve for the need to provide the timely care to help prevent permanent disability, or even death, when a stroke occurs. …any hospitals are adopting...

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• Biosimilars: First Approval from FDA

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 7th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a milestone with respect to biosimilars.   The FDA approved Zarxio (filgrastim-sndz) as the first biosimilar product for use in the United States.  Zarxio will be an alternative to Neupogen,...

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• Peanut Allergy: How Allergic Are You?

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 6th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  Interesting article about some new science in the wings that will enable doctors to gauge the severity of an individual’s sensitivity to peanuts.  That would be a huge advancement, at least in my mind, considering the dangers of a...

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• The World of Surgery and the 30 Day Survival Standard

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 5th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  Interesting article in the New York Times recently about the current measure of success used by Medicare (and thus hospitals) to judge whether or not a surgery is successful.  To open the conversation, the Times writer related a story...

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• Timely Antibiotics for Open Fractures

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 4th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  Learned something new today.  Despite being allowed to deliver some other medications in the field, paramedics apparently are not permitted to administer antibiotics.  A recent study from William Lack, MD (an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Loyola University Medical Center), and...

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• Colon Cancer: Left Side versus Right Side

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 2nd      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  Interesting study, led by Dr. Fotios Loupakis, of the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles, suggests that the side of the colon (left versus right) where cancer begins may be a relevant factor in the...

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• After Heart Attack, Beware of NSAIDs

  Written By Deb Wilson on March 1st      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  Once you’ve survived a heart attack, researchers have determined that using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as painkillers could increase the risk for another heart attack, stroke and/or serious bleeding.  Unfortunately, these drugs tend to be commonly used by individuals without a...

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• Diabetes and Vitamin D: Is There A Connection

  Written By Deb Wilson on February 28th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  There wouldn’t necessarily seem to be a relationship between someone’s level of Vitamin D and their risk for diabetes, but a recent study is suggesting just that. People with low levels of vitamin D appear to have an increased...

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• Google: Doctors Researching Patients

  Written By Deb Wilson on February 27th      •       No Comments      •      Uncategorized

  There is an issue currently evolving in the health care world around when, and if, it is ever appropriate for a doctor to “google” one of his/her patients. The authors of a new paper in the Journal of General...

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