Reform Issues
Apr 6, 2012
The main tension about healthcare centers around medical need, quality, access and cost-efficiency...
Apr 6, 2012
Is health care reform merely cost-minimization, an opaque attempt to force economic responsibility...
Mar 27, 2012
Be careful! 'What you sow, is what you reap.' Health plans primary responsibility is the patients...
Mar 15, 2012
To make health care reasonably profitable for private payers and more affordable for patients,...
Jan 17, 2012
A NY Times essay laments the underpayment of primary care and how that frustrates a medical...
Evidence-Based Medicine
Dec 8, 2011
You want the best health and well-being for yourself and loved ones, but vitamins and supplements,...
Dec 8, 2011
Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
Primum non nocere The evidence...
Apr 30, 2012
The vast majority of child/youth bed wetters sleep too soundly to know when to wake in time to void...
Feb 6, 2012
Coconut Oil as Alzheimer's Remedy? - If it only were true!
According to Mary T. Newport, M.D.,...
Dec 11, 2011
What's the Relationship Between Using Antibiotics and Then Getting MRSA?
RE: Community-acquired ...
Illness Care
Dec 23, 2012
For patients wuth abnormal (hyperkinetic) movements, tics, or tremors:....
The initial "Clinical...
Dec 11, 2011
The infant's head is enlarging, but the doctor observes that the fontanelles are not bulging, and...
Dec 11, 2011
Group B Strep, a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality since the 1970s: The Standard of...
Dec 11, 2011
Exercises Can Help Kyphosis, But....
Certain exercises may prevent or delay the progression of...
Dec 11, 2011
In poorly controlled asthmatic children, what works best?
Ans: Long-acting beta agonists (the ones...
References
Dec 11, 2011
The question really is what are you getting for your health care dollar?
What's right or not right...
Dec 10, 2011
The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized country that does not ensure that all of its...
Resources
Mar 16, 2012
Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal* recommends that we take a hard look at the ICD-10 coding system and consider...
Dec 11, 2011
Be Well-Informed From Harvard's Medical School Faculty
Focus on Fitness
Get up off the couch...
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Preventive Care
May 8, 2012
Obesity is a contributor to or a cause of chronic medical and/or surgical conditions including...
Dec 11, 2011
When it comes to health, the better informed patient does better—Duh!
What is a pateint to do to...
Dec 11, 2011
Some risk factors are NOT worthwhile to use as screening tests....
Many risk factors for disease...
Dec 11, 2011
The “Million Hearts” initiative is worth keeping for its reach and cost-benefit. It is designed to...
Dec 11, 2011
Can you imagine a child getting sick or harmed from your refusal to protect them? How about the...