AJM’s Best of 2014: The Lives of Black Physicians in the South
Professor and Dr Richard D. deShazo et al’s series of articles dealing with the history of African American medical school applicants and physicians in the Deep South during the contentious years of...
View ArticleAJM Contest: ‘Best Medical Image’ Case
Every physician has seen patients whose diagnoses and the corresponding medical images are remarkable. Now The American Journal of Medicine has created a medical imaging case report competition to help...
View ArticleNew Functionality, More Social Media Added to AJM Blog
The American Journal of Medicine blog got a minor face lift this week, in an effort to strengthen the Journal’s social media presence, as well as tie the blog to other AJM/Elsevier services and...
View ArticleAJM on Social Media: Tweeting Trends Show Reader Interest
The American Journal of Medicine’s home page– AmJMed.com— has an interesting link to Altmetrics, an online tool that measures social media engagement with the Journal’s research articles. So, what are...
View ArticleAdvancing High-Value Health Care: A New AJM Column Dedicated to...
Despite the very high cost of health care in the US, expenditure continues to rise. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, health care expenditures for 2016 are projected to be...
View ArticlePersonomics: A New Series in the Green Journal
On an almost-daily basis, we are witnessing marvelous advances in biomedical science. Thanks to discoveries in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and in other fields, patients are increasingly...
View ArticleDifferent Causes of Death in Patients with Myocardial Infarction Type 1, Type...
Data outlining the mortality and the causes of death in patients with type 1 myocardial infarction, type 2 myocardial infarction, and those with myocardial injury are limited. Methods During a 1-year...
View ArticleCardiologists Receive Little Nutrition Education in Med School (video)
Writing in the American Journal of Medicine, Devries et al reported that “a large proportion of cardiovascular specialists have received minimal medical education and training in nutrition, and current...
View ArticleNurse Practitioners & Physicians as Effective as Physicians in Early Diabetes...
Who should care for patients in the first five years of a diabetes diagnosis? New research in the American Journal of Medicine reveals that nurse practitioners, physician assistants and doctors are...
View ArticleCoaching Patients Saves Lives and Money (video)
The Coaching On Achieving Cardiovascular Health (COACH) Program has been proven to improve biomedical and lifestyle cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The objective of this study was to...
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