Heart attack patients do better in America's "best" hospitals

Do "most wired" hospitals deliver better care?

BACKGROUND A study was conducted in 2006 to compare differences in objective quality of care measures among hospitals labeled "Most Wired"--a hospital or member-hospital of a health system listed among the Hospital and Health Network's Healthcare's Most Wired Hospitals for 2004--versus hospitals without that designation. METHODS Ten quality indicators representing cardiac and pulmonary measur...

Doing what we do best, only better

As current editor-in-chief and executive editor for the Journal of Cell Biology, we are writing to describe our shared vision for the journal: To enable the swift and painless publication of advances and thought-provoking ideas in a range of fields that inform cell biology, and to promote this high-quality work as broadly as possible in our community. Throughout 2015, we celebrated the 60th ann...

Heart attack or rhabdomyolysis?

 Statins are commonly used drugs in the treatment of hyperlipidemia (HL), despite some undesirable side effects. These range from mild symptoms such as myopathy, muscle weakness and myalgia to severe muscle weakness associated with chronic myopathy and acute renal failure (ARF) as a result of rhabdomyolysis. The most serious and deadly side effect of statins is rhabdomyolysis. The case presente...

Heart hospitals: for better or worse.

How do we best treat patients with ischemic heart disease?

Despite investigations over several decades, it is still difficult to define an optimal treatment strategy for patients with ischemic heart disease. Some of the many reasons for this dilemma include delayed and highly variable symptomatic presentation, lack of a clear relationship between symptom severity and outcome, a changing population (aging and more women), changing therapies, and a relat...