FYI.
Nonmedical Use of Pain Relievers
A report based on the 2004-2006 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health shows growth in the number of people using prescription pain
relievers nonmedically. Go . . .
Pain relievers.(Cartoon)
"I'm sort of in internal medicine, but I spend most of my
time taking phone calls from patients, straightening out billing snafus,
answering e-mails, reviewing Medicare options for patients . . .
Indications.
When Fat Hits Below the Belt
An Australian researcher thinks he may have found the ultimate
weight-loss incentive for men: their pride. Not pride in what the mirror
judges, but pride in sexual . . .
Making medical inroads in India: global perspectives on medical
practice.(WORLD WIDE MED)(Interview)
Dr. Renu Weiss had a longstanding desire to work with the
destitute. When she heard about The Banyan, a facility that focuses on
providing psychiatric and medical care for mentally ill destitute . . .
Chronic conditions now top killers worldwide.(Practice
Trends)
Chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke are now the
biggest killers worldwide, signifying the shift of global disease burden
away from communicable diseases, the World Health . . .
U.S. can learn from other health care systems.(Practice
Trends)
WASHINGTON -- Analysis of other countries' health care systems
has pointed out what might work--and what won't work--in efforts to
reform the U.S. health care system.
At the annual meeting of the . . .
IMGs fill gaps in primary care physician shortage areas.(Practice
Trends)
ARLINGTON, VA. -- International medical graduates have become an
integral part of providing medical care in federally designated
physician shortage areas.
"Compared to U.S.-trained physicians, . . .
Primary care shortage data reveal some surprises.(Practice
Trends)
CRYSTAL CITY, VA. -- Suppose the federal government has designated
your part of the state as a physician shortage area, but charges
haven't gone up and you still have lots of openings for . . .
Primary care for older patients will get scarcer.(Practice
Trends)
CRYSTAL CITY, VA. -- The shortage of primary care physicians
schooled in caring for elderly patients will continue to worsen,
according to an analysis of federal physician data.
"Our nation is . . .
Oregon reviews 10 years of 'Death With
Dignity'.(Practice Trends)
PHILADELPHIA -- While physicians in much of the United States
struggle with issues surrounding end-of-life care, those in Oregon may
help their terminally ill patients end their lives because of . . .
States boosting SCHIP despite budget woes and bush
vetoes.(Practice Trends)
Even though the Bush administration has made it nearly impossible
to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and the
economic downturn has put a squeeze on Medicaid budgets, many . . .
Policy & Practice.
Part D premiums for 2009
Medicare beneficiaries can expect to pay an average of about $28
per month for standard Part D prescription drug coverage next year. The
estimates from the Centers for . . .
Vitamin D deficiency after gastric bypass predicted by preop
levels.(Gastroenterology)
SAN DIEGO -- Several preoperative factors--a longer bypass limb
length, low vitamin D levels, and African American ethnicity--were
significant predictors of postoperative vitamin D deficiency in a . . .
Pouch emptying after bypass may predict weight
loss.(Gastroenterology)(Clinical report)
PHILADELPHIA -- Patients with slow or no gastric pouch emptying on
an upper GI study 1 day after undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypass may have less weight loss at 1 year than would . . .
Sleeve gastrectomy may trump gastric banding in the short
term.(Gastroenterology)
PHILADELPHIA -- Morbidly obese patients who undergo laparoscopic
sleeve gastrectomy may lose significantly more weight in a shorter time
period than those who undergo laparoscopic adjustable . . .
Bariatric surgery has advantages in
disabled.(Gastroenterology)(Clinical report)
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. -- Disabled Medicare patients who undergo
bariatric surgery may have higher operative mortality and a greater rate
of complications than those outside of the federal program, . . .
Evaluating new ICU fever.(THE EFFECTIVE PHYSICIAN)
Background
Managing critically ill adults is a complex and resource-intensive
undertaking. The American College of Critical Care Medicine and the
Infectious Diseases Society of America recently . . .
Skin infections from community MRSA rising.(Infectious
Diseases)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Community-associated methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus--almost unheard of 10 years ago--has become the
single biggest cause of skin infections in the United States, Dr. . . .
Multicentric castleman's disease increasing in
HIV.(Infectious Diseases)
CHICAGO -- The incidence of multicentric Castleman's disease
is increasing among patients with human immunodeficiency virus,
including those who have access to highly active antiretroviral . . .
Kaposi's incidence shows rapid rise and fall over 3
decades.(Infectious Diseases)
KYOTO, JAPAN -- The incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma among
American men jumped more than 30-fold in the 1980s with the AIDS
epidemic, peaked around 1991, and then declined rapidly in concert with
the . . .
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