Physicians were distressed to learn of the psychiatric patient
who died while waiting to be seen in a Brooklyn hospital. How can
Several weeks ago, JAMA published a commentary, "Physicians
Behaving Badly," detailing some of the inhumane ways in which
doctors (and, I might add, hospital staff and office personnel) . . .
Pain relievers.(Cartoon)
TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR MOM MEDDLING IN YOUR . . .
Another close call.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I really enjoyed Dr. H. Steven Moffic's article ("Is
There a [Real] Doctor on the Plane?" The Ethical Way, June 2008, p.
62).
The same thing happened to me on a return flight from Hawaii.
There . . .
ACP stand on marijuana is appropriate.(LETTERS)(Letter to the
editor)
In our primary care clinic, I see many patients with chronic pain
disorders ("Internist Group Backs Use of Medical Marijuana,"
April 2008, p. 56).
These patients either have used marijuana or are . . .
Sleep and memory: can learning be enhanced?(GUEST
EDITORIAL)(Guest editorial)
The history of sleep and memory research began with Ebbinghaus in
1885. Research remained dormant for some time, but by the late 1980s,
studies involving trampolining (Percept. Mot. Skills . . .
FDA rejects 'approvable,' 'not approvable'
terms.(News)
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer issue
"approvable" or "not approvable" letters when a drug
application is not approved. Instead, the agency will issue a
"complete response" letter . . .
Aetna defends its use of preferred provider
networks.(News)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Speaking at the insurance industry's annual
meeting, an Aetna executive defended the company's
performance-based physician networks, saying that they were a way to
keep costs down . . .
Insured, uninsured report access problems.(News)
One in five Americans postponed or skipped needed medical care last
year because of cost, insurance problems, or difficulty getting an
appointment, according to a report from the Center for . . .
HHS pushes doctors to start using electronic
prescribing.(News)
Federal officials are urging physicians to begin electronic
prescribing as soon as possible now that Congress has authorized bonus
payments for the successful use of the technology.
Under the . . .
AMA urged to use apology as a
'Springboard'.(News)
African American physicians are looking for action to back up the
words of apology recently tendered by the American Medical Association
for more than a century of racial inequity and bias.
In . . .
Overall child well-being has improved, new report
finds.(News)
WASHINGTON -- Today's young people engage in less risky
behavior, are healthier, and have better access to educational
opportunities than their parents did when they were teens, a recent
report . . .
Panels discourage black box warning on AEDs; Antiepileptic drug
patients should get medication guide explaining suicidality risk
BELTSVILLE, MD.--A boxed warning about an increased suicidality
risk with the use of antiepileptic drugs should not be added to the
labels of drugs in this class, but patients prescribed these . . .
Bioterrorism threat lives on, as do vaccine-related
events.(News)
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- Despite the grateful lull that has followed
Sept. 11 and the anthrax scare in 2001, bioterrorism remains a very real
threat, a Food and Drug Administration counterterrorism . . .
ADHD prevalence climbs 4% annually among U.S.
teens.(News)
The percentage of adolescents being diagnosed with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is on the rise, but prevalence
rates remain constant among younger children, a new study shows.
Among . . .
Congress acts to expand parity, reverse pay cuts.(News)
Congress moved a step closer to mental health parity under Medicare
last month when it overrode a presidential veto of legislation that
decreased cost sharing for mental health care and codified . . .
Alcoholism is increasingly seen as medical illness; U.S. survey
also finds heightened stigma.(News)
WASHINGTON -- The public became more likely to regard alcohol
dependence as a medical illness over a 10-year period, but
stigmatization of alcoholism increased over that period as well, the
latest . . .
Vital signs.(News)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
Aggregate Hospital Costs of Select Diagnoses
(in millions of dollars)
Affective disorders $3,338
Schizophrenia and related disorders $2,411
Alcohol-related mental disorders . . .
SOFAR focuses on military families.(News)
Alone soldier, bandaged up to his elbow, stood amid a crowd of
clinicians, parents, and teachers, telling the story of a bad day in
Iraq.
His audience had gathered at Boston Medical Center to . . .
Google, Microsoft vie to lead health IT change: eventually,
system will enable patients to schedule appointments, refill
prescri
WASHINGTON -- Search engine giant Google has joined software giant
Microsoft in an attempt to revolutionize health care information
technology, one patient at a time.
Google launched Google . . .
Nashville clinic focuses on immigrant groups.(Practice
Trends)
WASHINGTON -- When Dr. David Gregory worked to open a health clinic
for the uninsured in 1991, he thought that he would be treating
residents of the nearby housing projects. Most of the residents . . .
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