Daily Alcohol Intake Linked to Enlarged Left Atrium, A-Fib
Long-term drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol may increase risk of stroke
Long Daytime Naps May Increase Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Shorter naps did not appear to have any effect on diabetes risk
High Rate of Career Satisfaction for Thoracic Surgeons
73 percent of practicing surgeons are either satisfied, very satisfied, or extremely satisfied
Value-Driven Outcomes Tool Can Cut Health Care Costs
Highest variability in costs identified for post-op infection and sepsis, lowest for organ transplant
Similar Outcomes for Permissive Underfeeding, Standard Feeding
For critically ill patients, outcomes similar in those at high, low nutritional risk
New Anticancer Drugs Up Costs and Life Expectancy Considerably
Lifetime costs up $72,000, life expectancy up 13 months with new drug use in breast cancer
Objective Criteria ID Those With No Chance of Survival in OHCA
Three objective criteria identify patients with no chance of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Similar NSCLC Survival for Surgical, Endosonographic Staging
Five-year survival not significantly different after mediastinoscopy or endosonographic staging
Newborn Gut Microbiome May Predict Later Allergy, Asthma
Gut microbiome dysbiosis might promote CD4+ T cell dysfunction
Sleep Apnea Diagnoses Up Among Outpatients From 1993 to 2010
Majority of diagnoses reported by primary care providers, pulmonologists, and otolaryngologists
