Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
ORLANDO, FLA. -- The dentist's office may become the new first line of defense in the battle to prevent stroke. Dental researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine are the first to show, in a general population, that a standard dental X-ray taken on new patie...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
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...member his patients would come streaming outof his office upstairs sometimes when I made something that really smelled bad.But he didn't mind." "I thought the whole thing was magic," he remembered. "You'd mix twothings and get something entirely different." A nonprofit organization with a membership...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
...ospitalizations, emergency room visits,unscheduled office visits, days spent ill and days out of work. Those results,Bria says, show the promise of changes now transforming health care. "The era of hospital-centered care is over," he says. "The trend is now towardthe maturation of the health care system a...Study Shows Child Health Plus Eases Access, But Some Barriers Remain
...ve trouble getting toor reaching their physician's office by phone. All groupsreported high satisfaction with Child Health Plus and theirphysicians. Shone and her colleagues theorize that even though Child HealthPlus has effectively eliminated the financial barriers to healthcare for children of the working...Communication Between Doctors And Asthma Patients Is Key
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...en percent ofsurgery is already being performed in office settings. "It's hard to predict where the trend will stop," he said. "It took years forpatients and third-party payers to accept ambulatory surgery, yet today, 70percent of surgery is performed on an outpatient basis." He suspects that specialty area...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
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...of the countries. PAHO, which is also the regional office for the Americasof the World Health Organization, issued an emergency appeal for immediate aidto the health sector in Central America after Hurricane Mitch, based on requestsfrom the countries and its own evaluations. The U.S. and Sweden have alrea...Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
...rman andBurk, a radiologist and director of Duke's office of integrative medicineeducation, said it is important to examine the principles of care common to bothconventional and alternative treatment. Clinicians following conventionalmedicine rely on scientific method in making decisions about appropriateth...PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
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...h," said Dr.Weintraub. "I have people coming to my office thinking their child must havebitten on something because their tooth shattered. What actually happened isthat decay made the tooth so brittle that it broke off." This condition may require capping of the front teeth -- a procedure that Dr.Weintraub ...