-
Most Popular
When Pain Never Goes Away, How Can Doctors Help?
New Study Shows "Nearly Everyone with HIV Can Be Treated Effectively"
Pandemic Flu Monitor: H1N1...The Whole World Over
One Hour of Exercise a Day Helps Teens at Genetic Risk for Obesity to Keep Weight Normal
Obese Kids 63% More Likely to Be Bullied than Average-Weight Classmates
-
Most Recent
How Can a Doctor Choose Medications for Patients Without Data Comparing New Ones to Existing Ones? Half of the Time, They Don’t Have That
Sex Research Review: WSJ Columnist Tells You What’s What
Watch Out for Diet Used by Mother of Bride for Royal Wedding
Victims and Bullies Spend More Time with School Nurses, Study Says
Would You Spend All You Had to Buy Time If You Had Cancer? See Who Would or Wouldn’t
Archives: News
How Can a Doctor Choose Medications for Patients Without Data Comparing New Ones to Existing Ones? Half of the Time, They Don’t Have That
When doctors are choosing medications for patients, this study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that they do not have the evidence they need to make the best decisions they can for their patients’ individual needs.
Topics: News
Would You Spend All You Had to Buy Time If You Had Cancer? See Who Would or Wouldn’t
An important new study examined which cancer patients would spend all that they have to prolong their lives—and who would not. The study appears in the current issue of the journal, Cancer.
Topics: News
New Technology May Help Care-Givers Wash Their Hands Consistently…This Is a Big Deal
The latest dirt about hospital care-givers’ failure to….wash their hands. Also there is news about how it may be possible to clean up this scandal.
Topics: News
The Big Three Now Own the World: Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes Are Leading Causes of Death
The United Nations Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases is planned for this fall. The only other summit of this kind was convened to consider a global AIDS response. Heart disease, cancer and diabetes now are the leading causes of death world-wide.
Topics: News
Older Brains May Benefit As Much from Socializing as Crossword Puzzles
Have you been concerned that you aren’t great at brain games? You know, major in The New York Times crossword to protect your mental sharpness as you grow older? A new study compares these tools with socializing to see what helps brains most and how.
Topics: News
Kaiser Poll Shows Seniors Prefer Medicare Stay As It Is as Congress Searches for Budget Cuts
The message from seniors to the Congress is easy to understand. Leave my Medicare alone.
Topics: News
More Medical Students Would Like Internal Medicine But Can’t Handle Debt
A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine looked at med students’ views of internal medicine as their first choice between 1990-2007—three years shy of 20 years of data. There is good news about students’ perceptions but no news about ways to reduce debt load.
Topics: News
Do Your Doctors Have a Communications Problem? You May Be Able to Help
Primary care doctors and specialists each think they do a better job at communicating about patients.
The “senders” of patients, primary care doctors, think that “most of the time,” they do a better job than specialists.
Interesting. The specialists think “most of the time,” they do a better job of sending information back to the patient’s own doctor. What can you do? Read on.
Topics: News
More Patients Die 30 Days After Surgery If They Have Do Not Resuscitate Orders
This is a story which could easily cause misunderstandings based on headlines alone. Patients who had do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders had a higher risk of mortality within 30 days of surgery than those who do not have DNR orders, according to a study just published in the Archives of General Surgery.
Topics: News
Britain Plans Biggest Changes to National Health Service Since 1948
Britain’s National Health Service may undergo sweeping changes which put more responsibility at the local level with practitioners. In addition, the goal, say political leaders, is to give patients more power.
Topics: News
