How does a doctor tackle the delicate issue of end-of-life care planning with a patient? With an aging population and people living longer with chronic illness, it is increasingly important for patients and family members to decide how they and their loved ones would like to spend their final...
Shared-decision making, clear patient preference recommended before PSA testing Men between the ages of 50 and 69 should discuss the limited benefits and substantial harms of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test with their doctor before undergoing screening for prostate cancer, according to...
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - now assured by the re-election of President Obama - is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at...
Researchers from John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation's 50 best cancer centers, played an important role in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that may change the current blood and marrow transplantation practices. The phase...
A Colorado School of Public Health researcher has found that laws designed to illuminate financial links between doctors and pharmaceutical companies have little or no effect on what drugs physicians prescribe. "If the policymakers who passed these measures were hoping for a deterrent effect...
A significant minority of physicians responding to a national survey disagreed with or admitted not upholding accepted standards of professionalism for open and honest communication with patients. In the February issue of Health Affairs, investigators from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy...
"Twinning" U.S.-Based And Rwandan Physicians Improves Lymphoma Outcomes In Children
In an African county lacking any specialists in children's cancers, a team approach that "twins" Rwandan physicians with Boston-based pediatric oncologists has shown it can deliver expert, curative care to young...
Hello, I am planning on taking Human nutrition as one of my core requirements for my major; I want to know if this class is difficult and if it will be better if I take this class onsite or online.
also is this class a good class to take for someone who is going to major as a PA
Patients overall in the United States are very satisfied with their physicians and with treatment they receive in outpatient settings, according to new information which challenges common public perceptions about outpatient medical treatment...
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Research on physicians' decision-making processes has revealed that those who pay attention to failures as well as successes become more adept at selecting the correct treatment. The researchers also found that all the physicians in the study included irrelevant criteria in their decisions about...
Patients treated by physicians who billed for both technical (practice/equipment) and professional (supervision/ interpretation) components of nuclear and echocardiographic stress imaging tests were more likely to undergo such tests after coronary revascularization compared with patients of...
...Told Dr. I felt a deficiency? was at the root of lifelong anxiety after doing my own thorough research. I even printed out some pages from reputable sources.
She said she has no training in treating with vitamins and instead offered a prescription for XANAX, Oh, brother....
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Thanks to a new diagnostic imaging technique, physicians now have an objective test to evaluate patients for parkinsonian syndromes, such as Parkinson's disease. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is among the first institutions in the country to offer DaTscan™, the only FDA-approved imaging agent...
In an era of skyrocketing health-care costs and finite financial resources, health economists are increasingly called upon to determine which medical treatments are the most cost-effective. To do so, they compare the price of an intervention with the improvement it is expected to deliver. For...
A concept developed by New Jersey orthopaedic surgeon Lee Berger, the noninvasive Ortho-Tag uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology designed at Pitt to give physicians easy access to information about implants and patients often at the end of a long paper trail. Radio-frequency...
At most, 6.2 percent of physicians' total compensation comes from the tests, prescriptions, procedures and admissions they order, according to a new survey by healthcare staffing and technology company Jackson Healthcare. The online survey of 1,512 physicians explored trends in their fixed and...
Many say that its too tiring, too expensive, too regulated and too underpaid to continue practicing? Many say that the government & insurance companies have overtaken medicine and will continue to get wore in genera by even replacing medical doctors with Physician Assistance & Nurse...
I am looking for a really good Physician in the city. Given sexual history runs very closely with health, I would feel more comfortable if he were gay.
Legitimacy is a factor. I'm not looking for a date. I want a doctor. Ideally within the AETNA Network, but a mere reference to start would be...
The American College of Physicians (ACP) commended Congress for taking bipartisan action to preserve access for patients enrolled in Medicare and TriCare by stabilizing physician payments through 2011. The College noted, though, that the incoming 112th Congress will need to enact legislation to...
The Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) has received a $75,000 grant from The Physicians Foundation to help train physicians to be effective leaders of their medical staffs and handle the emerging challenges of the health care industry. IMQ will partner with the University of California, San...