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…
The fruit fly had 15 minutes of fame during the 2008 presidential general election campaign when it was suggested that money could be better spent than on fruit…
As part of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, Dr. Joanne Jordan, director of the University of North Carolina Thurston Arthritis Research Center, and colleagues have found that African…
David Liebovitz, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Medical Director of Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, discusses real time surveillance to identify all patients in…
John Albers, DVM, Executive Director of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) discusses three simple recommendations for optimal care. References and Resources AAHA. Compliance: Taking Quality Care to…
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director, Plastic Surgery Research, Head, Microsurgery Training, Cleveland Clinic, talks about her book “Face to Face”, her quest to perform the first full face…
Daniel Rauch MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Medical Center, Member of NYU Pediatric Inpatient Associates, discusses the fear of needles faced by children and their parents…
Daniel Rauch MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Medical Center, Member of NYU Pediatric Inpatient Associates discusses the recent advances in pneumonia treatment in children, which include…
