News tagged with doctor rating

Tiny new tool to track heart rate in real time on a smartphone (w/ video)

Thanks to an invention from two EPFL laboratories, patients and their doctors can now immediately be made aware of heart rate anomalies and can thus quickly take any necessary medical measures. The device is very small, non-invasive ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mammography use up for US immigrants

While mammography rates have improved among foreign-born women residing in the United States, these women are still less likely to have undergone breast cancer screening than native-born U.S. women.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why do men hate going to the doctor?

A national survey found that women were three times more likely to see a doctor on a regular basis than men. Even though men on average die younger than women and have higher mortality rates for heart disease, cancer, stroke ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fertility treatment: Safer drug for women leads to same live birth rate

With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. They now conclude that ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Free phone app helped doctors perform better in simulated cardiac emergency

Doctors who used a free iPhone application provided by the UK Resuscitation Council performed significantly better in a simulated medical emergency than those who did not, according to a study in the April ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unemployment among doctoral scientists and engineers lower than among the general population in 2008

Data released today by the National Science Foundation show the recent economic recession had less effect on doctoral degree holders in science, engineering and health (SEH) fields than it did on the general population.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online doctor ratings have their flaws

I recently searched several doctor rating Web sites to see whether other people like my OB-GYN as much as I do.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1