Better tools are desperately needed to measure kidney function in critical care patients, says Dr Jeffrey Berns.

On first inspection everything seems normal in these echos, but a closer look and a calculator reveal the diagnosis.

A new analysis looks at the benefits of using a single- vs double-lung transplant in patients with IPF or COPD.

Dr Andrew Shorr urges familiarity with a large pneumonia vaccine trial in The Netherlands, recapped here, and with CDC recommendations.

NIH Director Francis Collins describes the challenges and opportunities of launching the President's precision medicine initiative.

Dr Jeffrey Berns comments on research released at a recent stroke conference that he says may have made a basic blunder.

A randomized clinical trial looks at the effect of daily chlorhexidine bathing in the CCU and whether it really prevents VAP and other nosocomial infections.

As a practicing physician, Dr Eric Topol is well aware that doctors are getting squeezed. Here is his solution on how to fix it.

What does the evidence say about use of automated external defibrillators in children?

What matters at the end of life? Dr Lundberg describes two compelling and very different books that reach similar conclusions.