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World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) and Cardiovascular Health 2016 : Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from WCC 2016.  

For trauma patients, staying in the intensive care unit (ICU) for more than a month may not mean the chances of survival are low, according to a new study.  

Dr Flume examines potential optimization of inhaled antibiotics in suppressing Pseudomonas infection in cystic fibrosis.  

Medscape interviews an orthopedic surgeon about the use of forced-air warming devices to prevent unintentional perioperative hypothermia.  

In anaesthetics we are trained to pre-oxygenate and intubate our theatre patients in a flat supine position. Then, when we graduate to intubating the really gnarly ICU/ED patients in severe heart or respiratory failure, we wise up. A paper in Anaesthesia & Analgesia demonstrates how patients who are intubated in a semi-sitting position are less likely to suffer complications when intubated.  

It is an unintentional medical education paradigm that you tend to learn on patients rather than from them. This is especially true in the early years of training. As you gain in experience you start to encounter, or recognise situations, where a patient’s action itself can teach you something.  

"We aimed to answer the question, 'Is physical activity as beneficial throughout the world as it is in high-income countries?' And the answer is 'yes,' " say researchers.  

European Hematology Association (EHA) 2016 Congress : Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EHA 2016.  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is too slow to order companies to recall tainted foods, leaving people at risk of illness and death, a government watchdog said in a review of the agency's food safety program.  

Smoking both marijuana and tobacco during pregnancy may create greater health risks than cigarettes alone, according to a recent U.S. study.  

Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis), a parasitic infection normally confined to the tropics, has spread to parts of Southern Europe, according to a new report.  

Medical examiners who evaluate airline pilots have been receiving more training in detecting mental health problems, U.S. regulators said on Thursday after reviewing procedures in the wake of last year's deadly Germanwings crash by a co-pilot who authorities said concealed his mental illness.  

Backers of the measure cited the problem of occult uterine cancer spread by power morcellators, first reported to the FDA after it happened to anesthesiologist Amy Reed, MD.  

The doctor behind a groundbreaking IVF technique which prevents disabling genetic disorders from being passed on to future generations is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.  

Art may bring real pleasure to people's lives but can it also help them if they are faced with ill health?  

The FDA approved a single-dose vaccine for the prevention of cholera in adults from the US aged 18 through 64 years.  

PechaKucha presentation on the use of ECMO in the emergency department for refractory ventricular fibrillation in cardiac arrest  

Welcome to the 138th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource exploring global research  

Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal causing compression of the nerve roots) present with a combination of low back pain and leg pain, numbness, and heaviness. The condition is best managed surgically,1 but which operation should be used?  

Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal causing compression of the nerve roots) present with a combination of low back pain and leg pain, numbness, and heaviness. The condition is best managed surgically,1 but which operation should be used?