News tagged with health care providers
Survey: Men may not be adequately involved in decisions about prostate cancer screening
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Men largely make decisions about prostate cancer screening based on conversations with their clinicians, but these discussions often do not include information about the risks of testing in addition to the benefits, according ...
Researchers believe hormone therapy should not be stopped prior to mammograms
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are recommending that menopausal women on hormone therapy (HT) continue their treatment prior to having their annual mammogram screenings. These ...
New Web site promotes interoperable newborn screening data
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) today launched the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide, an important step toward efficient electronic exchange of standard newborn screening data. The new Web site was created ...
Too many ways to say 'it hurts'
Jul 29, 2009 |
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There are at least 100 ways to say, "It hurts!" And that is the problem.
Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly ...
