Annette M. Matthews

TL;DR: A systematic literature search found that among 74 FDA-registered studies, 31%, accounting for 3449 study participants, were not published, and the increase in effect size ranged from 11 to 69% for individual drugs and was 32% overall.

TL;DR: The higher number of younger physicians and physicians in training and tendency toward increased reporting by immediate contacts in the diversion program suggested earlier intervention in substance-impaired physicians monitored by two different programs in Oregon.

TL;DR: This article reviews studies examining the relationship between antipsychotic medication and cigarette smoking and suggests that in persons with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, typical antipsychotics may increase basal smoking and decrease people’s ability to stop smoking, whereas atypical antipsychotropics decrease basalsmoking and promote smoking cessation.

TL;DR: Development of the Starr-Edwards heart valve marked a new era in the treatment of valvular heart disease, and provided help and hope for patients who otherwise would have died from the complications of rheumatic heart disease and otherValvular disorders for which valve replacement is the only treatment.

TL;DR: Those from high managed care communities were only slightly more accepting of managed care, but were more likely to choose general internal medicine as a career than those from communities with lower managed care penetration.