Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressively debilitating disorder characterized by sustained increases in pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary arterial pressure, which eventually leads to right-sided heart failure. Current therapies for PAH work predominately as vasodilators to target symptoms, rather than focusing on the initial signals that promote disease progression. These therapies have proved […]

Background: With recent duty‐hour restrictions for internal medicine residencies, hospitals are increasingly hiring hospitalists to meet the demand of higher patient volumes not on the teaching services. This creates an interesting dilemma about how newly admitted patients will be distributed between the nonresident hospitalist services and the resident teams. Both services often have unique rules […]