Social distancing introduced in response to COVID-19 is increasing feelings of loneliness in Scotland’s older population and impacting their wellbeing,…
COVID-19 can worsen OCD in children and young people, study finds
Many children and young people with obsessive thoughts and compulsions experience that their OCD, anxiety and depressive symptoms worsen during…
Trauma hospitalizations fall in Philly during COVID-19 lockdown, but gun violence rises
Non-intentional trauma fell compared to the period before COVID this year, but ratios of gun violence patients increased after stay-at-home…
Autism: A Spectrum Disease
Recently, during a rotation as the attending physician on our cardiology consult service, a patient we were seeing for atrial…
Intensity of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Heart Failure Outcomes
The impact of guideline-directed medical therapy for coronary heart disease in those with hospitalized acute heart failure is unknown.
Action Potential-Like ST Elevation in a Young Patient With No Heart Disease
Tombstone ST elevation in the electrocardiogram (ECG) is an ominous marker of high-risk ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) but occasionally, it…
Gallbladder Cryoablation: A Novel Option for High-Risk Patients with Gallbladder Disease
Twenty million patients in the United States suffer from gallbladder disease, with over 200,000 cholecystectomies performed annually.1 The gold-standard treatment…
Associated Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: an extensive differential explored
Concurrent pleural and pericardial effusions are not an unusual finding, but their differential diagnosis remains uncertain. Medline-based review identified an…
Do spoilers harm movie box-office revenue?
Spoiler reviews have a positive and statistically significant relationship with box office revenue.
High blood pressure complications in US pregnancies have nearly doubled
Researchers found high blood pressure complicated about 80,000 pregnancies in 2018, nearly twice as many as in 2007. Women living…