The study reviewed 806 patients in Norway and Sweden with AMI and found no increase in MI risk for patients undergoing ophthalmologic procedures done in an outpatient setting.

A strongly worded opinion piece in The British Medical Journal argues that evidence-based medicine has been corrupted. Specifically, the editorial piece argues that the pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility to its shareholders means that priority must be given to their hierarchical power structures, product loyalty, and public relations propaganda over scientific integrity.

What do family physicians and infectious disease doctors have in common? They are both medical specialties that pay the lowest when factored for number of hours worked. Read the full list to see if your specialty is among the lowest paid in the US. The results might be surprising.

This meta-analysis examined 1,212 published articles and abstracts, of which the 30 fulfilling their criteria were analyzed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D levels on OS, PFS, and secondarily on time to treatment, relapse rate, and non-relapse mortality in patients with hematologic malignancies. Lower vitamin D level at diagnosis was related to a significantly impaired prognosis for myeloid and lymphoid malignancies, as previously reported.

This retrospective cohort study included 2,833 patients with stage IB to IIIA NSCLC who enrolled in the Adjuvant Lung Cancer Enrichment Marker Identification and Sequencing Trial (ALCHEMIST) screening study from August 18, 2014, to April 1, 2019. Although 93% received surgical resection, just 53% had adequate lymph node dissection and 57% received any adjuvant chemotherapy. The authors suggest more effort at optimizing use of proven therapies in this patient population.

This study evaluates the effect of including a patient-reported electronic symptom scoring system in terms of outcomes. Symptoms scored included pain, fatigue, disturbed sleep, shortness of breath, and coughing. The intervention group reported fewer symptom threshold events than the control group in hospital and 4 weeks post discharge.