Today’s article marks the ending of one of the better parables in medicine. It’s the story of a drug that seemed like a really good idea, moved the needle on a lot of surrogate endpoints, and ultimately proved to be ineffective for improving any outcome that might actually be important to patients. It’s the story of nesiritide, recombinant […]
Hi all! Bill here. Today’s piece is written by Aalap Shah, a man with the dubious honor of being one of my closest medical school friends. Aalap is a third year emergency medicine resident at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Here is an embarrassing picture of him! Excited to have an EM perspective on our […]
Saying that PCSK9 inhibitors are a hot topic in medicine right now is a lot like saying that Donald Trump is a controversial president, or that you shouldn’t reference politics on a blog meant to have broad appeal across the political spectrum. I mean, it’s obvious, right? But as both a primary care doctor and […]
Cardiologists are an inventive bunch — smart money says that they’ll be able to transplant an entire heart via an intravascular approach by 2020, and the more aggressive centers will do lungs at the same time via a radial approach. You laugh, but think about the first time you heard about transcatheter aortic-valve replacement. Avoiding […]
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