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• Book Review: All Medicines Are Poison!

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  That’s the title of a new book by Melvin H. Kirschner, M.D. When I first saw the title, I expected a polemic against conventional medicine. The first line of the Preface reassured me: “Everything we do has a risk-benefit ratio.” Dr. Kirschner took the title from his first pharmacology lecture in medical ...
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• Riyadh: Senior Registrar Family Medicine

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 137
  Security Forces Hospital is a 431 acute care hospital with more than 2,400 employees serving the familities of the Ministry of Interior. The hospital is a well known teaching hospital, critical Care facility and secondary care center in the capital Riyadh Job Opening:Senior Registrar Emergency MedicineRequirements:The ...
  2 days ago

• Red reflex eye test recommended for all newborns

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 132
  With the number of premature births and medically fragile infants now increasing in the U.S., a basic eye exam, including a red reflex test, should be given to all infants shortly after birth, reports Angela Buffenn, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Orbit and Eye Movement Institute at The Vision Center of Childrens ...
  4 days ago

• Healthcare’s Google-Facebook-Twitter Platform

  
  phil baumann online — Authority: 403
  Image by woodleywonderworks via Flickr Can’t we just have one place on the web where all of us around the world can congregate to acquire reliable health care content, connect patients with each other, have conversations, trade experiences and otherwise partake in the vastness of health care? That certainly ...
  1 week ago

• The House Special

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  During the past several weeks, I have diagnosed several patients with novel H1N1 influenza infection with my diagnostic opinion occasionally backed by a positive flu swab. When my wife, an ER doctor, fell ill I suggested she had novel H1N1 infection and went on to advise some of my family, friends, and neighbors of ...
  1 week ago

• New guideline for ED weighs PDE-5 inhibitors, hormones

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 120
  A new guideline from the American College of Physicians takes no stand one way or the other on the use of hormonal testing or hormone-based treatments for erectile dysfunction (ED). For initial treatment, it says, most affected men should try one of the available phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors, based on ...
  1 week ago

• Medical Treatment Of Ingrown Toenails: 1908 And 2009

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  Flipping through the 1908 textbook, A Text-Book of Minor Surgery by Edward Milton Foote, MD I found at an antique store last month, I came across the section on ingrown toenails. The causes of ingrown toenails were much the same as one hundred years. This is a condition in which the edge of the nail, usually of ...
  1 week ago

• When Should A Doctor Break Up With His/Her Patient?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know, I know that it’s true Don’t say that this is the end Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again There are times that relationships need to end.  Usually something happens to undermine trust; it’s hard to build trust, but it’s very easy to ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. shows dramatic rise in VTE among children

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 120
  Confirming the observations of individual pediatric hematologists, a study of records from tertiary care pediatrics hospitals shows a 70% increase in the number of children in whom venous thromboembolism (VTE) was diagnosed over 7 years. How much of this is because of greater vigilance and better detection? Whatever ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is marijuana getting a bad rap?

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 120
  Marijuana causes anxiety, panic attacks, and psychotic symptoms, but most often in first-time users, according to the Australian authors of a meta-analysis. Its effects on cognitive function are real but perhaps not permanent, they find, adding that pot may cause less severe impairment than alcohol or other drugs of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rural health providers improve health of economy, not just patients

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 657
  The steady decline in rural health care access can take a toll on patients’ health. But it can also impact the economic well-being of rural communities. When health care providers leave a geographic area — either by choice or by retirement — the surrounding community loses a significant portion of its tax base. ...
  2 weeks ago

• If I Could Fix One Thing About US Healthcare

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  In my post yesterday about lessons we can learn from Israel’s health care system I wrote: So, yes, the focus on health insurance reform will lead to many changes, and more complexity.  And some day, years from now, someone will be explaining the American system to an audience, and people will wonder, how did ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Rob: Why I Blog

  
  Better Health — Authority: 594
  It was a legitimate challenge. When I mentioned to a fellow blogger that I was appearing on NPR, and he raised a very important question:  ”Is that really a good thing?  I thought that the point of blogging was to pose a challenge to the mainstream media, but it seems like bloggers feel like they have made it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making the switch: the debut of electronic medical records

  
  insider - UF College of Medicine News Resource - University of Florida — Authority: 419
  UFs College of Medicine recently implemented electronic medical records for the first time at a clinic the college runs in Old Town, Fla. Here, COM and clinic leaders discuss the change.
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• Who’s an accident waiting to happen?

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 120
  What happens to people who develop feelings of faintness while driving? Should they be told to  stop driving, and for how long? A study from the Mayo Clinic defines who has this problem and how often it recurs within a year after the first episode. This editorial describes the study, and weighs in on its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doha, Qatar: Consultant Family Medicine / General Practice

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 137
  Our client is a new 250 bed hospital in Doha, Qatar with acute and tertiary care facilities. The hospital has an immediate vacancy for a Consultant Family Medicine / General PractitionerWhen required – Immediate   Qualification – Post graduation in Family Medicine/General Medicine from USA, Canada, France, UK, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Things Dont Go Better with Commercial Sponsorship--Coke and AAFP

  
  Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma — Authority: 478
  I dont get any joy out of using this blog to tattle on my own professional medical society, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)-- but they recently cut a "high six figure" deal with Coke: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/10/family_doctors_sign_educationa.html The support is to pay for educational ...
  3 weeks ago

• New decision aid tool may benefit diabetics

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): Scientists have developed and tested a tool to involve patients more in their diabetes treatment and medication choices. Victor Montori, M.D., a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist in Rochester, co-author of the study, said that the tool, a set of decision aid cards, could help diabetics make ...
  3 weeks ago

• Journal Article: Physicians should offer NFP

  
  Natural Family Planning — Authority: 416
  Maybe if I put this journal article from the American Board of Family Medicine up in a weather balloon and claimed a child was in it, it would get a little more press and recognition. (H/T to Birth a Miracle blog for the journal link.) It’s one of the better articles I’ve read, refuting point-by-point ...
  3 weeks ago

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