After the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, markets sank throughout Asia. Investors worried that the devastation would disrupt power producers and hurt a wide range of manufacturers. But some money managers argue that the pessimism is excessive.
In a highly unusual twist to a medical malpractice lawsuit, a juror was arrested in the middle of a trial and accused with soliciting bribes to procure a plaintiff’s verdict.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (PA) are increasingly being used in hospital emergency departments.
Malpractice awards may be at an all time low in the United States, according to the consumer watchdog group, Public Citizen.
Dr. Z’s office was crowded, but this was nothing new. The 61-year old urologist had built a thriving practice, primarily from referrals from his network of general practitioners. It didn’t hurt that he was active in the local country club and regularly played golf with other physicians.
A study comparing 325 men with palpable varicoceles and 510 men with vasectomy reversal without varicoceles revealed that men with varicocele had significantly lower testosterone levels than the comparison group (mean 416 vs. 469 ng/dL).
Nocturnal hemodialysis significantly improves the ability of early-outgrowth endothelial progenitor-like cells (EPLCs) to promote the growth of new blood vessels and thus restore perfusion in a model of ischemic vascular disease.
In a study of 436 patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis (mean age 65.1 years), ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measurements showed risk of both renal and cardiovascular (CV) events to be highest when daytime systolic BP was 135 mm Hg or higher, when diastolic BP was in the highest quintile, and when nighttime systolic BP was 124 mm Hg or higher.
Traditional nephrology training makes us believe that it is good practice to start maintenance dialysis therapy sooner rather than later. Nevertheless, recent data indicate that we may encounter yet another “old-practice-was-wrong” paradigm shift.
Clinical trials show that bardoxolone methyl not only maintains renal function, but improves it.
