Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses IT in medicine, not only relating to EMR but to issues with storage volume and medical imaging. He also talks…
Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses the implications of health care reform, such as supporting the pay structure of general practice and IT disease management. IN…
Gary Small. MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, University of California, discusses memory, and describes techniques people at any age can use to protect their brain and enhance…
Alison M. Grimes, AuD, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA, discusses cochlear implants, their indications and use. The FDA has approved cochlear implants…
Joshua Grill, PhD, Director, Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Development Program, University of California, discusses new drugs that are in development for the treatment of Alzheimer’s…
Robert Goldberg, MD, Frank Dabby Professor, Opthalmology Chief, Orbital and Opthalmic Plastic Surgery, UCLA, discusses treatment for Graves Eye Disease, which mainly focuses on medical therapy. IV steroids…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Episodes of dyspnea are more common in patients treated with the antiplatelet agent than in those taking clopidogrel, although the clinical importance of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of developing obesity-related cancer such as breast cancer or prostate cancer is apparently not curtailed in patients who undergo bariatric surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic kidney disease not requiring hemodialysis present a dilemma when it comes to treating concomitant multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD): coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating rheumatoid arthritis aggressively in the early stages, aiming for remission, produces good outcomes that are maintained for at least a decade- this…
