In this video interview, Donee Patterson, MD, a family practice physician and director of medical community outreach for Einstein Neighborhood Healthcare in Philadelphia, answers questions about her use of online clinical and drug reference tools in the course of her practice.

Compared with a bare-metal stent, the use of a stent with a biodegradable polymer that releases the drug biolimus resulted in a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events at 1 year among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram following a heart attack) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study in the August 22/29 issue of JAMA.

In this video, Timothy Murphy, MD, chats with a patient about his medical relationship and the unique benefits of a concierge medical practice.

Medicare patients 65 years and older who underwent cataract surgery had lower odds of hip fracture one year after the procedure when compared with patients with cataracts who did not have cataract surgery, according to a study in the August 1 issue of JAMA.