Losing More Than 15% of Body Weight Significantly Boosts Vitamin D Levels in Overweight Women
Posted by: admin on: June 20, 2011
Overweight or obese women with less-than-optimal levels of vitamin D who lose more than 15% of their body weight experience significant increases in circulating levels of this fat-soluble nutrient, according to a study published online May 25 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Best Practices for Treating COPD in Primary Care Reviewed
Posted by: admin on: June 20, 2011
Air pollution, Respiratory allergies and Smoking have increased the incidence of Chronic lung disease .It is a big drain on the State health care scheme abroad and a drain in pockets of an average middle class citizen of India. Educating a patient & involving him in his or her own treatment is the task of primary care workers. The job gets tougher in rural India. But this is a challenge.
Team@CMHF
Adherence to treatment of primary osteoporosis and its association to fractures-the Swedish Adherence Register Analysis (SARA)
Posted by: admin on: June 19, 2011
Category: Orthopaedics
Life long treatment for osteoporosis has not been adhered to amongst the Swedish population. Situation could be worse in India where poverty, illiteracy, myths and ignorance could add to the existing problem .It becomes the Family doctor’s job to educate & see that the patients take these medicines lifelong.
Team@CMHF
6 Ways Evidence-Based Medicine Impacts Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery
Posted by: admin on: June 19, 2011
With the advent of computer, data entry, its analysis & storage have all become easier than ever before. Recording the treatment given and the results obtained could be of great benefit to the medical fraternity. This is what the orthopaedic fraternity has to say.
Team@CMHF
Fever sometimes best left untreated
Posted by: admin on: June 18, 2011
How often we treat our patients with antipyretics? If we had a little patience to explain to our patients, the benefit of fever it would be far more worthy than just prescribing one to curb it. Fever is a protective symptom which should not be ignored but not be a cause for panic and treatment. Here is a study to emphasis that a temperature less than 40 degrees is to be just watched and the person just has to rest.
Team@ CMHF
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