News tagged with doctors
Choosing the best doctor
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Finding a good doctor is both harder and easier than ever before. Harder because insurance restricts your options. Easier because government and other health-care Web sites are putting more information about doctors at your ...
British medics let sick baby die after court ruling
Mar 21, 2009 |
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A seriously ill baby boy in Britain died Saturday, the day after his parents lost a legal battle to force doctors to keep him alive.
Vietnamese boy, 3, dies from bird flu: doctor
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A three-year-old Vietnamese boy died Thursday from bird flu, a doctor in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh said.
Online doctor ratings have their flaws
Mar 13, 2009 |
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I recently searched several doctor rating Web sites to see whether other people like my OB-GYN as much as I do.
Cellphones may spread superbugs in hospitals: study
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Cell phones belonging to hospital staff were found to be tainted with bacteria -- including the drug-resistant MRSA superbug -- and may be a source of hospital-acquired infections, according to study released Friday.
Classifying concussions could help kids
Mar 02, 2009 |
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It's estimated that more than a half million kids in the U.S. go to the hospital each year with a concussion.* That's an average of a kid per minute- every minute of every day. Some concussions are worse than others but it ...
Treating drug-addicted doctors is good medicine
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Doctors who become addicted to alcohol and other drugs can be treated successfully and returned to medical practice with the help of special programs that couple referral to treatment and monitoring with rapid responses to ...
More children need medical help for RSV than previously known
Feb 04, 2009 |
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More than 2 million children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are seen in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors' offices in the United States every year -- many more than doctors know. In fact, only 3 percent of children ...
Study shows that primary care doctors miss opportunities to recommend colon cancer screening
Feb 03, 2009 |
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While it is known that patients with few primary care doctor's office visits are less likely to receive colorectal cancer screening, new research indicates that even patients who see their physicians regularly also do not ...
Survey could help pediatricians better treat patients
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Pediatricians usually have about seven minutes to sit face-to-face with patients during a typical visit. It's barely enough time to perform an exam, let alone assess how a child is faring at school or at home.
Treatment lowers temp, saves patients in cardiac arrest
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Nearly 200,000 out-of-hospital incidents of sudden cardiac arrest occur among U.S. residents each year. For every minute care is delayed, survival is decreased.
An unconscionable conscience rule
Dec 26, 2008 |
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Doctors take an oath to put their patients' interests first. A new Bush administration rule will change that. The so-called "conscience rule" is one of a host of last-minute regulatory changes being made in the waning hours ...
UCLA expert blames American values for health-care crisis
Dec 04, 2008 |
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To heal our ailing health care system, we need to stop thinking like Americans. That's the message of two articles by UCLA's Dr. Marc Nuwer, a leading expert on national health care reform, published this week in Neurology, ...
Doctors must look after their health too
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Short term counselling followed by a modest cut in work hours may help reduce emotional exhaustion (burnout) and sick leave in doctors, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
Doctors should disclose off-label prescribing to their patients
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Doctors should be required to disclose when they are prescribing drugs off-label, argues a new article in this week's PLoS Medicine. Michael Wilkes and Margaret Johns from the University of California Davis argue that the et ...
