Internal Medicine

Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?

2013-05-02 05:30:00

About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...

Saying no to surgery

2013-05-10 21:27:00

Thom McDaniels is no stranger to surgery. As a longtime athlete and high school football coach, he's spent years putting his knees through the wringer. After injuring his right knee again during football practice, he was told by an orthopedic surgeon that...

Grocery shopping on an empty stomach leads to dieting disaster

2013-05-06 15:03:00

Attention dieters: If you want to maximize your chances of success, don’t go to the grocery store on an empty stomach. So says a new JAMA Internal Medicine study from two members of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, where researchers...

Federal panel says everyone 15 to 65 should have HIV test

2013-04-29 16:09:00

Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its recommendation that all people ages 15 to 65 be screened for the virus that causes AIDS. The recommendation from...

Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...

For Muslims, bad memories and new worries

2013-04-18 16:48:00

There are few Muslims in the small northeast Ohio town where Karen lives with her Palestinian American husband and their five children. In a region where Amish and Mennonite women cover themselves, Karen and her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, find the...

In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath

2013-04-17 11:37:00

Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

More gun laws reduce violent deaths. Or do they?

2013-03-07 06:00:00

Research on gun violence is staging a roaring comeback in the nation's leading medical journals, with a study published this week linking the strength of states' gun laws to varying rates of gun violence across the United States. The new study,...

Cash for pounds makes cents in greenback diet

2013-03-07 13:30:00

What's a pound of flesh worth? Dieters at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota apparently think it's worth at least five bucks. A yearlong study of incentives in dieting found that the majority of 100 obese participants met a goal of losing four pounds per...

The Starbucks syndrome in healthcare

2013-03-31 00:00:00

"In Scotland, death is considered imminent; in Canada, it's considered inevitable. In California, death is considered optional." Ian Morrison, a Scottish-born futurist and healthcare consultant, was joking when he said those words. But not entirely....

Match Day 2013 results are good for future internal-medicine patients

2013-03-15 14:52:00

America’s future doctors are increasingly interested in become primary-care physicians -- good news for America’s future patients. Friday was “Match Day,” the day when fourth-year medical students find out where they’ll...

Study finds association between processed meat and disease

2013-03-07 10:45:00

Another study has found an association between eating meat and premature death, this time linking the consumption of bacon, sausage and other processed meats with cardiovascular disease and cancer in a study of nearly a half-million Europeans. "Overall,...

Restaurant meals and processed foods are not doing your diet any favors, according to two new studies in JAMA Internal Medicine.

2013-05-13 15:07:56

UC Irvine medical student Christine Louie celebrates after learning she got into a UCI/CHOC residency program on Match Day in 2011. Once again, more medical students chose residencies related to internal medicine and primary care in 2013.

2013-03-15 14:31:35

Dr. Mark Lowitt, a dermatologist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, has been practicing in the field for 22 years. What does your job entail? The patient care part of my job involves medical care of thousands of different skin conditions.

2013-02-15 00:00:00