A study in the American Journal of Physiology—Cell Physiology highlights the importance of weighing risk with benefits when considering statins as a preventive measure. Read more and read the study.

Risk/benefit ratio for statins

Troponin may help predict cardiac events

Meniscal transplants can relive pain, delay surgery

Computer algorithm can predict septic shock

Why is nursing’s voice absent from population health management strategy?

Boost your confidence in caring for patients with insulin pumps

Proactive intervention for osteoarthritis

What you say to yourself

From our readers: When your parent is the patient

Enhance your self-awareness to be an authentic leader

What works: Measuring acuity on a medical-surgical unit

A bold call to action: Mobilizing nurses and employers to prevent and address incivility, bullying, and workplace violence

Recommendations to make cancer drugs more affordable

Sexual assault screening in the outpatient setting

Neurocysticercosis: More than a headache

Exploring childcare health consultant as a career option

Quiz Time – 8/4/15

Teenage binge eating may be result of gene variation

FDA approves new cholesterol-lowing drug

FDA approves new device for treating obesity

ACA improves care

FDA authorizes prosthesis for above-the-knee amputations

Lower ankle brachial index associated with mild cognitive impairment

Our Readers Respond

Voalte Announces First User Conference

Quiz Time – 7/21/15

FDA approves new drug for schizophrenia and new drug for lung cancer

Nurse perception of nurse-driven protocol to remove urinary catheters

Assessing your patients’ risk for falling

July 2015 Vol. 10 No. 7

Beyond the tip of the iceberg

Acute kidney injury: Causes, phases, and early detection

Falls prevention roadmap

Collaboration: Get better care, go home sooner, live longer

We’ve made gains in preventing falls, but more work remains

How big data can improve health care