American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine investigates strategies for controlling heart disease
...ed 75% of Americans seek medical advice from their doctors each year, confirming that health care workers wield significant influence over their patients lifestyle choices. Unfortunately, physicians tend to underestimate their role as health counselors and dont always suggest controlling heart disease risk f...Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
...f new ones, due to concerns over the potential for doctors who co-own specialty hospitals to be influenced by financial rather than medical reasons when referring patients for hospital care. Concern has also arisen about specialty hospitals' potential to "skim" the most lucrative patients from a region, leav...Women need expanded musculoskeletal care during pregnancy, study finds
... obtained. "Based on the findings of this study, doctors of chiropractic and other health care professionals need to expand the musculoskeletal care available during pregnancy, especially in underserved populations," Dr. Skaggs said. "As a proactive step, health professionals should consider including bac...Joint Principles of PC-MH released by organizations representing more than 300,000 physicians
...hem, their medical history and their family. Where doctors and other health care professionals provide comprehensive and continuous care in an environment that nurtures patient/ physician collaboration, improves quality and is cost effective." The Joint Principles state that quality and safety are hallmark...New device could revolutionize eye disease diagnosis -- creating eye maps on the high street
...led by the University of Warwick, can provide both doctors and high street optometrists with a hand-held eye disease diagnosis device equal to the power of bulky hospital-based eye diagnosis cameras. It will also give optometrists the ability to email detailed eye maps of patients to specialist eye doctors....Medical, IT, engineering experts form advisory panel for electronic health record safety
Electronic health records (EHRs) allow doctors to find the information they need to manage a pati...ported errors related to EHR use. As hospitals and doctors across the country adopt EHRs, they will need information on limiting such errors. To meet this need...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
... at the Baton Rouge facility. From there, Ochsner doctors could access all electronic medical records, which helped patients identify prescriptions, get them filled and aided continuity of care. "We were lucky in our location, and within a couple of weeks we were at full operation with regards to our clini...Using morphine to hasten death is a myth, says doctor
... spiritual distress, he adds. And he warns that doctors who act precipitously with high, often intravenous, doses of opioids are being misled into bad practice by the continuing promotion of double effect as a real and essential phenomenon in end of life care. Using double effect as a justification for...Depression increases health risks in heart failure patients
...with exercise or rehabilitation programs, may miss doctors appointments and tend to make unhealthy lifestyle choices in such areas as diet and smoking. In an attempt to better understand the role of depression in the fate of heart patients, the researchers are currently enrolling patients in a new clinical...AHA statement recommends doctors change approach
Many doctors should change the way they prescribe pain reliever...ively few studies have been done with naproxen and doctors should continue to be cautious about prescribing it as well, pending more information. "This is a fa...Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
...air? Does the empowered patient movement mean that doctors have lost some of their professional clout when it...it was used critically to mean the evil actions of doctors who turned deviation from the norm into disease, and imposed medical authority on aspects of everyda...U of MN doctors uncover treatment for advanced ALD patients
Continuing with more than a decade of research, doctors at the University of Minnesota have discovered a treatment to help patients with advanced cases of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare disorder affecting the nerves. The results are published in the late February issue of Bone Marrow Transplantation....Germany & Portugal come near bottom of new blood pressure based happiness league
... of the success of a country. Maybe economists and doctors are going to have to work together in the design of future economic policies. The researchers drew a random sample of 15,000 people from across the European countries. These people were interviewed about all aspects of their lives, including thei...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...ational recommendations to help patients and their doctors use best practices to prevent heart disease practices based on data rather than myth or wishful thinking." CVD is the largest single cause of mortality among women, accounting for 38 percent of all female deaths. The public health impact of CVD in ...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...shing chest pain, only to find that emergency room doctors are uncertain whether youre having a heart attack.... The only thing to do is wait, hour after hour, as doctors repeat the tests several times and scrutinize the results for diagnostic clues. Soon, the wait may...What prevents doctors from counseling their patients to lose weight, exercise and quit smoking?
Israeli doctors believe that part of their job is to encourage the...ea and its actual implementation. While 99% of the doctors surveyed said that they believe that educating their patients toward a healthier lifestyle is part o...Picture this: FSU professor's research could lead to vastly improved medical imaging
... or MRI, has revolutionized health care, providing doctors with a highly accurate, non-invasive tool for diagnosing cancer, injuries and other maladies within the human body. Now, a Florida State University researcher has collaborated in a research project that could lead to ways of producing even sharper me...Medicare payment cuts will accelerate primary care collapse
... at least an 8 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors -- which is not sustainable -- and is certain to have a multitude of adverse effects. "This Medicare payment cut will cause severe access problems and will stand in the way of achieving long-standing and fundamental reforms in physician payment pol...New forecasting tool could reduce drug development costs
...aring a negative impact on marketability. Instead, doctors often resort to giving adult drugs to children off-label, outside the context of a controlled, safety-monitored study. ......iac Surgery. Previously, it was more common for doctors to perform artery bypass surgery on the heart by stopping the heart and passing the blood through a heart-lung machine, says author Dr. Shahzad Raja. However, this process frequently leads to whole body inflammation, which includes complications such...