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Physicians Need To Treat Patients With Respect For Treatment To Be Effective

...s, are the ones who follow all the advice of their physicians for effective treatment of their ailments. // In a national survey of more than 5,000 Americans, those who said they were treated with dignity during their last medical encounter were more likely to report higher levels of satisfaction with their c...

Cholesterol Can Cause Burst Arteries

...tle altogether. What this work also means is that physicians and other health care providers now have another weapon in their arsenal against cardiovascular disease. Researchers had stressed that it remains imperative that people use diet and exercise to keep cholesterol levels low. Essentially, the research...

Cervical spinal injury patients may have more damage left undetected

...ing additional injuries. Because of that low risk, physicians were urged to use plain x-rays and avoid computed tomography (CT) in evaluating these cases. Researchers reviewed patient cases from the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS), which was conducted at 21 centers across the United...

Pharma Companies May Influence The Decisions Of Medical Students

...s $12 billion to $18 billion annually marketing to physicians (including residents), according to background information in the article. This includes 60 million visits annually by pharmaceutical representatives and most of the $1.54 billion spent annually on continuing medical education. Drug company–physici...

Indian doctors in America help Katrina victims

...respiratory therapists to nurses to pharmacists to physicians . We used our collective skills to overcome the de...19 medical societies in Texas). The response from physicians has been so great that Texas has actually had to refuse help. The Texas Medical Association got five...

Depression Can Worsen Heart Disease

...21-question Beck Depression Inventory, a tool that physicians and scientists use to measure symptoms of depression. The researchers drew blood samples from each patient. From these samples they evaluated levels of three cytokines: TNF-alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). Previous resear...

Obesity Linked To Deep Vein Thrombosis

...en under age 40, the presence of obesity may alert physicians to a possibility of the diagnosis. The diagnosis of PE is frequently missed even though PE is the third most common acute cardiovascular disease after myocardial infarction and stroke, said the researchers. Source: Newswise...

For West Nile Virus: Prevention Is The Watchword

...le Virus continues to affect more and more in USA, physicians have suggested that precaution is the way to contain the epidemic. West Nile virus activity peaks in August and September, according to the U.S.// Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and floodwaters and rain from Hurricane Katrina has height...

Resident Physicians Need More Preparations To Treat Patients From Different Cultures

Research shows that resident physicians are often less prepared to treat patients from dif...icle in the September issue of JAMA, many resident physicians report a lack of preparedness in caring for patients with specific cultural characteristics, such as...

45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

...e authorities to work in coordination with general physicians to ensure that the suspected patients undergo blood test for dengue and the exact number of the cases is ascertained. The chief justice as also directed all Pharmacies in Kolkata to function from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. for the benefit of the people and th...

Scientists Concerned Over Increasing Malfunction Of Heart Devices

...ration (FDA) released // a study at a meeting with physicians and heart-device manufacturers recently, which fou...f replacing their defibrillators. But, a number of physicians said they do not have all the information they need to make those decisions. Source -(IANS)...

Eye Diseases Diagnosed Through Genetical Testing

...s-kind test on a // microchip array that will help physicians hone their diagnoses for patients with the blinding disease known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The screening technique has proven to be reliable and cost-effective. In the new issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), scientists...

Researchers at Cornell University as been reported using research fund by false claims

... Antonio Gotto, and three administrators and seven physicians at the center, including former director Maria New. US Attorney reviewed Weill’s database on actual use, it found, for instance, that in 2003 the program director used 80% of inpatient resources and 67% of outpatient resources. “The case is being rev...

Chest Pain Can Be Identified By New Tracer Chemical 30 Hours After Pain Relief

...the tracer in this study. The discovery may help physicians in emergency rooms and in their offices determine whether a patient's chest pain, which may have subsided hours earlier, is related to heart disease or something else, such as indigestion. This probe provides a direct connection to the cause of the...

Doctors May Not Be Ready To Tackle Bio-terrorism

... botulism and plague//. More than one-half of 631 physicians tested were unable to correctly diagnose diseases ...er, test scores improved dramatically for the same physicians after they completed an online training course in diagnosing and managing these diseases caused by b...

Indian hospitals require International Accreditation

...pital care and increase in number of hospitals and physicians providing the health care, the healthcare standards should me monitored for the benefit of the // patients. Due to the specialty and facilities in Indian hospitals, there is an increase in patients from neighboring and other countries for treatmen...

Improved parent-physician communication to prevent hospitalizations for childhood asthma

...een conducted among parents, doctors and attending physicians of children admitted for asthma to an urban hospit...forts of primary health care physicians, attending physicians and parents. Following the survey, it has been projected that nearly 15 to 54 percent of all asthm...

Medical Mishaps In Telemedicine And Their Prevention

...eaning of information for the patients and for the physicians do not disappear when the information is transmitt...tient safety. Although 25% of interactions between physicians and patients take place on the telephone, little has been written about telephone communication and ...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...nitiative to educate women with epilepsy and their physicians about emerging links between seizures, menstrual cycles and other interrelationships in women's reproductive health. Anticonvulsants are used to control seizures in people with epilepsy, but are more frequently prescribed for the treatment of non-...

Guidelines for treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis formulated

...idence-based medical practices for JIA and provide physicians with a rational approach for treating the various ... of the disease. By examining a patients' symptoms physicians can determine the type of arthritis they have and what approach is most appropriate for treating the...

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