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Most patients aren't receiving all the meds they should based on guidelines, nor are they getting them at the most effective time in their disease course, suggests a registry study of patients in the United States hospitalized with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). 2023-06-21

Health care providers are missing opportunities to give medical treatment to high-risk individuals hospitalized for alcohol use disorder (AUD), a national analysis of Medicare beneficiaries reported. 2023-06-27

I remember what it was like to be a medical student at a well-known cancer hospital where patients were dying of cancer. In life's final stages, it was not uncommon for physicians to increase the dose of morphine; it alleviated pain, eased labored breathing, and yes, probably hastened the inevitable for patients who were in their final hours. In these scenarios, no one considered this euthanasia, and no one questioned whether it was the right thing to do. 2023-07-07

It's tough to keep up with the proliferation of monoclonal antibodies. Seems every day I'm confronted by a patient who's using a new drug with a name ending in "mab." That drug blocks a cellular receptor I haven't heard of that's involved in a cascade of interactions I haven't thought about since medical school. The resulting disruption reduces disease burden, typically at great expense to the medical system, the patient, or both. We've truly entered the era of precision medicine. It's not enough to understand disease; you also must know its heterogeneous expression so that you can prescribe the 'mab that targets the biology responsible for variants in behavior. 2023-07-06

Sixteen people from Gaza with complicated medical conditions will arrive in Spain today to receive care there, through an evacuation process involving the World Health Organization (WHO) and multiple partners. Fifteen of them are children, ranging in age from 3 to 17 years old. The mother of one of the children will also be treated in Spain. The patients had been in hospital in Egypt for the past several months, after evacuating from Gaza. They are a small portion of the thousands of other children and adults who need access to specialized medical care outside of Gaza. 2024-07-25