NEW YORK (Reuters Health) The incidence of invasive fungal infections in very low birthweight neonates is significantly reduced in those given prophylactic bovine lactoferrin, an Italian group reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Based on postoperative levels of parathyroid hormone and serum calcium, more than half of patients undergoing thyroidectomy do not need routine calcium and/or vitamin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Every month of treatment for hypertension leads to almost one extra day of life free from cardiovascular death, researchers report in the Journal of…
After evaluating changes in the Senate health system reform bill contained in a manager?s amendment, the American Medical Association announced its support of the bill while also saying…
Kathleen Berchelmann, MD, CPHIMS, Pediatric Hospitalist, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, MO, discusses a new web-based program she developed which electronically manages the pediatric sign-out…
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director, Plastic Surgery Research, Head, Microsurgery Training, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the techinical challenges of face transplants versus hand transplants, citing the difficulty of the…
Roni Zeiger, lead product manager at Google Health, speaks to The Doctors Channel at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco 2009 about personal health records and how…
Scott Nelson, MD, talks at the 2009 NAMC Conference in Santa Ana Pueblo New Mexico, about how physicians can better communicate with terminally ill patients. Reading: Shama ME,…
The US House of Representatives late this week took a first step toward fixing the broken Medicare payment formula by voting 243-183 to pass the Medicare Physician Payment…
Gregg Takashima, DVM, president elect of AAHA, discusses standardization of medical records as a method to improve quality and consistency in animal care. For more information about the…
Chad Deal, MD, Rheumatologist, Head, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Cleveland Clinic, discusses a new antiresorptive agent for osteoporosis, denosumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody that…
In an article published in July 9, 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Daniel Clarke-Pearson, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at…
