All
RSSArticles
-
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
In this comprehensive review of studies comparing treatments for cerebral cavernous malformations, there were no randomized or blinded outcome trials, and the most effective treatment remains uncertain.
-
Submentalis REM Sleep Muscle Activity: A Potential Biomarker for Synucleinopathy
Objective findings during polysomnography (REM sleep without atonia), as diagnosed with submentalis EMG recordings, may be a biomarker for synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy.
-
Fluctuating Cognition: An Often-Neglected Feature of Lewy Body Dementias
Clinical identification of fluctuating cognition is challenging. A better understanding of potential etiological mechanisms can allow for optimization of clinical assessment tools and targeted therapeutic approaches.
-
Neuropathology and Dementia in Football Players With CTE
The authors of a cross-sectional study involving analysis of data from the ongoing Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) study found that dementia is likely a result of neuropathologic changes associated with repetitive head injury as well as non-head trauma-associated vascular pathologic changes in patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
-
Significance of Brain Microbleeds After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic microbleeds are common in patients with any severity of traumatic brain injury and may be a useful biomarker to predict clinical outcomes.
-
Appellate Court Orders Retrial Due to Physician’s Improper Testimony
This case raises an interesting legal issue that may be important and applicable to medical care providers’ defense of medical malpractice actions. Since litigation often arises years after the underlying services are provided, the care providers may no longer remember specific details for one patient who received services years ago. Under specific circumstances, courts permit individuals to testify about their courses of conduct when such courses rise to the level of “habit.”
-
Failure to Treat High Blood Pressure Results in Kidney Failure, $31 Million Verdict
A critical lesson from this case focuses on the legal concept of comparative negligence, which concerns whether a patient’s own negligent conduct played a role in causing or worsening his or her injury.
-
Cameras Help Monitor Compliance, Reduce Patient Falls
A health system based in Florida has found using cameras can improve compliance with quality and safety efforts, especially when the camera includes a speaker for communicating with people.
-
Program Trains Administrative Staff to Prevent Falls
A health plan in California is providing fall prevention training to medical office staff. Nonclinical staff often are overlooked in fall prevention efforts.
-
Google/Ascension Partnership Shows HIPAA Gray Areas
The Office for Civil Rights is investigating a huge data-sharing project between Google and Ascension, one of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, in a case that analysts say highlights the uncertainties of exactly what is and is not allowed under HIPAA.