Julie Peck

4 days ago | medscape.com | Julie Peck

It’s been all over the popular media and social platforms lately: Recently released studies on creatine monohydrate’s potential to do everything from reducing cancer risk to boosting cognition in patients with Alzheimer’s have a lot of people talking. In fact, 1 million people per month search online for creatine, a statistic that’s rapidly increasing.

5 days ago | medscape.com | Julie Peck

The particulate matter from wildfire smoke may be difficult to spot — with the eyes — within days, but those dangerous particles continue to post health risks for up to 3 months after exposure, new research suggested. A study published in Epidemiology in late May demonstrated that fine particulate matter in wildfire smoke represents a danger to human health considerably longer than a couple of days as previously thought.

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Julie Peck

Just surviving a major cardiac event is an achievement, but of course getting through whatever initial resuscitation and procedures necessary are merely the first steps. As a patient embarks on their rehabilitation journey, one incredibly dangerous setback cardiologists must be on the lookout for is cardiac posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

3 weeks ago | medscape.com | Julie Peck

When Shannon Ashley, now 43 years old, was in her tweens and teens, her legs were noticeably large. “Once I hit 12, my calves were unusually large, like tree trunks,” Ashley said. She tried to hide her outsized lower extremities, a contrast to her slender upper body, beneath wide-leg pants, and the size of her legs made clothes shopping difficult. “Doctors insisted that I was just fat,” Ashley said.

1 month ago | medscape.com | Julie Peck

If anyone can put a positive spin on the end of life, it’s Charles Vialotti, MD, director of Hospice Care at Holy Name Medical Center’s Villa Marie Claire in Bergen County, New Jersey. Violotti, who at the age of 80 lives at the 20-bed Villa Marie Claire to serve its residents full-time, says the hospice industry needs hospitalists’ help with sort of a rebrand, one that will almost certainly have a positive effect on patient and family satisfaction.