Dr. Wes

The always entertaining Dr Dork hosts this week's Grand Rounds of the best of the Medical Blog-o-sphere and did an outstanding job edit...

The line has been crossed. UnitedHealth, the health largest insurance provider in America, not only has officially decided who, when and wh...

I noticed something interesting in the medical device industry this week. It seems companies who make pacemakers and defibrillators are usi...

Today I received a letter from Stephen H. Mahle, Executive Vice President and President of Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management...

Took a bit of time off for Easter - hope others did the same. Happy, happy Easter to all. Back soon. -Wes

The sign outside the Holocaust museum in Dachau, Germany says "Never Again." Although I've spoken about the problem with Medi...

This evening, I saw a spot on the news about a new Illinois "comprehensive" health website to serve as a safety net for those wit...

“Come on, baby, breathe, please breathe, baby. Come on! You can do it! Please! Come on, honey, do it for mama! Breathe!” He never did. ...

Despite these new guidelines published in the April issue of the journal Heart Rhythm that addresses preparedness for cardiac arrest in hi...

Geez, I forgot to mention that Grand Rounds (Vol 3, No. 28) are up over at Urostream . Check it out for some of this week's medical blo...

DAMNITOL: Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours. EMPTYNESTROGEN: Suppository that eliminates melancholy and...

The world of implantable devices, like pacemakers and defibrillators, may become more interesting soon. MicroCHIPS, Inc. , a developer of in...

reconciliation noun 1. the reestablishing of cordial relations 2. getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkb...

It was great to be back in clinic yesterday. I saw lot's of interesting new patients with a variety of heart arrhythmias and a few pati...

Although not yet applicable to man, things are getting closer . -Wes 10:00 AM Addendum: It seems growing heart valve cells derived from bon...

We doctor bloggers are a solipsistic bunch: eager to indulge our egoistic self-absorption. We are rule-followers after all. We have followe...

At least one study thinks so. The research team analysed nationally representative registry data on sickness absence among more than 14,000...

Zelnorm (tegaserod maleate), a serotonin 5-HT4 receptor partial agonist indicated for the short-term treatment of women with irritable bowel...

This week’s Lancet had a short spot of Teen Second Life – virtual on-line world restricted to 13-17 year olds that allows them to “build” a...

Now that the American College of Cardiology meeting has come to a close, a number of interesting reports have surfaced that promise to atta...