Archive for July 2011
Experts Issue Guidelines on Care of Clogged Neck Arteries
Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
Ultrasound scans should only be used for patients at high risk of stroke, advisory says There isn’t sufficient evidence to recommend widespread screening or routine ultrasound tests to check for blocked neck arteries that could cause a stroke. That’s one key finding from new guidelines on the care of the clogged arteries, released Jan. 31 […]
Taxing soft drinks to combat obesity
Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
One commonly heard propositions to combat the obesity epidemic is to tax soft drinks. No doubt, sugary soft drinks are a common and important source of “empty” calories, but will taxing soft drinks really reduce obesity rates? This assumption was now examined by Yale University’s Jason Fletcher and colleagues, in a paper just published in […]
Safe Use of Drugs Requires Reports from Clinicians
Posted by: admin on: July 6, 2011
Karen Weiss, MD, MPH, Program Director for the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Safe Use Initiative in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Although precise figures are difficult to determine, studies suggest up to 50% of the harm from medications is preventable, which translates into about 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events each […]
Stroke Survivors Likely to Develop Medical Comorbidities
Posted by: admin on: July 6, 2011
Stroke survivors are at a significantly increased risk of developing health problems that can impact their daily life even if they have experienced only a single stroke and are still living in the community, according to an analysis of the Health and Retirement Study. Physicians, caregivers, and rehabilitation providers need to pay particular attention […]
Growth of retainer medicine follows simple economic principles
Posted by: admin on: July 6, 2011
Recently there were vigorous discussions about retainer medicine. In both discussions the “opposition” opined that every time an internist (or more recently family physician) leaves the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid services)/private insurance grid patient access decreases. They imply that outpatient generalists have a moral responsibility to continue seeing too many patients and spending inadequate time […]
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