Sick Travelers Returning from West Africa Most Likely to Have Malaria
While Ebola virus disease (EVD) is on everyone’s mind, ill travelers returning from West Africa are far…
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Sick Travelers Returning from West Africa Most Likely to Have Malaria
While Ebola virus disease (EVD) is on everyone’s mind, ill travelers returning from West Africa are far... -
FDA Launches Mobile App to Alert Public About Drug Shortages
In early March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the agency’s first mobile app specifically... -
Opinion: Freestanding Emergency Centers Increase Access to Care, Decrease Physician Burnout
Editor’s Note: This editorial from ACEP’s Freestanding Emergency Centers Section is a response to “Why Freestanding, Physician-...
FDA Launches Mobile App to Alert Public About Drug Shortages
In early March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the agency’s first mobile app specifically…
Opinion: Freestanding Emergency Centers Increase Access to Care, Decrease Physician Burnout
Editor’s Note: This editorial from ACEP’s Freestanding Emergency Centers Section is a response to “Why Freestanding, Physician-…
Opinion: Prehospital Naloxone Administration Is Safe
In the January 2015 ACEP Now article “True Cost of Stopping Overdoses,” Paul Kivela, MD, MBA, PhD,…
Testosterone to Slow Aging in Men Could Pose Cardiovascular Risk
The Case “I told him he never should have started that medication,” said the patient’s worried wife….
Emerging Healthcare Trends Highlight Need to Define Quality, Value Metrics for Emergency Medicine
Where does emergency medicine fit into this emerging framework? Does it fit at all—does it even have…
Opinion: Risk, Harm Ratios of Legalizing Marijuana Need Closer Look
In response to the marijuana pro-con [“Legalizing Marijuana Will Make It Safer,” and “How Legalizing Marijuana Has…
Opinion: Encourage Expansion of Medicaid Programs to Help Save Rural Hospitals
Thank you, Dr. Rogers, for raising this important issue [in “Rural Hospitals Not Open for Business,” January…
Opinion: Why Freestanding, Physician- or Investor-Owned Emergency Departments May Be Bad for Emergency Medicine
Driving in and around the cities that make up the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, I get the…
Rural Hospital Closures Leave Whole Communities Without Access to Emergency Care
Imagine you are in Washington, D.C., and have a sudden onset of severe chest pain radiating to…
