Patient-centered approach can backfire
...medication or making diet changes -- if they see a doctor whose attitudes toward patient-physician roles are...some patients, especially older patients, prefer a doctor with a more traditional "doctor-centered" or "paternalistic" style, someone who spends less time exp...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...ss of breath with exertion, or wheezing, ask their doctor about having a spirometry test performed....Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
... accredited by the AASM. Be prepared to tell the doctor how you spend your day and night, including your medicines, fluid intake and activities so that they will have all the information needed to decide how best to help you, says Krainson....New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...onable lifestyle, offering savings on hospital and doctor visits, x-rays, surgery and medications, not to mention improved productivity. ...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
...rs in the optic nerve. Glaucoma patients go to the doctor periodically to have their eye pressure checked. If it is high, the doctor prescribes medication or performs surgery. "The problem is that your interocular pressure spikes o...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...r if you are a doctor, and what it is like to be a doctor if you are manager. Among its recommendations are: The NHS should set the direction and expectations for the service, but allow individual trusts to develop their own metrics. Chief Executives should stop moving from trust to trust and wher...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...uctures on the scale of nanometers, smaller than a doctor can see with a microscope. "Contemporary diagnos...ct disease. In the fictional world of Star Trek, a doctor is able to make a diagnosis without ever interrogating an organ. Biophotonics shows that this approa...Screening for behavioral health first step to getting treatment
...adults reported an appointment with a primary care doctor within the last year. Second, there are many effective tools for screening available. Third, screening, when combined with appropriate treatment, has proven to help patients. There is a growing emphasis on the role of primary care doctors in addre...Holograms make for better vision tests
...ting which sunburst lines appear clearest, the eye doctor can obtain information he or she can use in determining the correct prescription for the patient. Traditionally, patients look through a series of lenses until they find which one gives each eye the clearest view of a distant target such as an eye c...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
...tients a medical home in which they have a regular doctor or health professional who oversees and coordinate...s and Hispanics are least likely to have a regular doctor or source of care. While health insurance coverage is an important determinant of whether people can...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
...quires doctors to see many patients. Visits to the doctor often are short and anything that is a waste of time takes away from getting to what the patient needs. The psychologists and physicians who conducted the investigation began the research believing that self-disclosure was an effective way to encou...Parents of chronically ill kids are helped by better access to federal and employer leave
...revention program at RAND Health. They also had 12 doctor or emergency department visits and one hospitalization. Unfortunately, many parents who dont have access to family leave are forced to choose between being with their child and keeping their job, said Schuster, who is also professor and vice-chair ...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
...been prescribed for them, but to make their family doctor or consultant aware of any adverse effects or problems their child experiences....Medicalizing the human condition
...nal role of the physician with the words: ask your doctor if (name of drug) is right for you. As a sociologist, I am concerned with the pathologization of conditions which used to be considered the normal spectrum of human behavior; I am concerned with the growing aspects of life where medical definitions...Medical management of another condition may not lead to early cancer diagnosis
...ning is important, whether or not you are seeing a doctor frequently. "It is always important to get age-appropriate cancer screening," Zafar said....JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
... doctors. The veterans who told their primary care doctor that they had pain before PTSD treatment said that their pain was less during and after the PTSD treatment. However, this finding was based on a review of charts, so other reasons could also explain the improvement in pain symptoms. More research abo...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...vidence is missing, Bennett even will track down a doctor at home on a Sunday and ask her to drive back to h...d its results in journals. However, drug companies doctor notifications were less likely than RADARs to include information on the incidence of the drug react...Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
...zation (emergency room visits or other unscheduled doctor visits for asthma), medication usage, missed days at work and the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) severity classification. GINA is an international society aimed at standardizing asthma care. Medication usage was evaluated for the 90-day period i...Inhaled steroids may not be enough for some children with asthma
...f a child has poor asthma control, the parents and doctor need to make sure the child is adhering to their inhaled steroid treatment. But variation in response to inhaled steroids, as other medications, is well described. The data comes from the Child Asthma Management Program Continuation Study (CAMPCS),......rio straight out of Gray's Anatomy a paramedic or doctor plops a mask over the face of a person struggling to breathe and begins dispensing pure oxygen. Yet growing research suggests that inhaling straight oxygen can actually harm the brain. For the first time, a new UCLA brain-imaging study reveals w...