Clinical

New White Paper Release Highlights Parrish Medical Center as National Integrated Care Leader

Aug 19, 2017 at 03:58 pm by Staff

America's premier health care accrediting and certification organization spotlights on its website Parrish Medical Center in a white paper written to help hospitals benefit f.... Read More

Florida Hospital to Launch Pediatric Liver Transplant Program

Aug 18, 2017 at 10:04 am by Staff

Florida Hospital is pleased to announce it is developing a pediatric liver transplant program, which will provide much-needed services to children in Central and North Flo.... Read More

Patient Radiation in Diagnostic Imaging

Aug 13, 2017 at 08:29 pm by Staff

By DR. WILLIAM F. SENSAKOVIC Wilhelm Roentgen serendipitously discovered x-rays in 1895. Scientists and physicians, eager to improve patient care, immediately applied.... Read More

Botox Use in the Trigeminal Pain System: A Review

Aug 13, 2017 at 07:52 pm by Staff

By DR. BRIAN FUSELIER, DR. MELVIN FIELD, AND DR. BARRY LOUGHNER Abstract Following FDA approval for Botox on October 15, 2010 to treat headac.... Read More

Obesity And Depression Are Entwined, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why

Aug 11, 2017 at 10:02 pm by Staff

By Shefali Luthra Kaiser Health News About 15 years ago, Dr. Sue McElroy, a psychiatrist in Mason, Ohio, started noticing a pattern. People came to see her because t.... Read More

Asthma, More Deadly With Age, Takes Heavy Toll On Older Adults

Aug 10, 2017 at 05:55 pm by Staff

By Judith Graham Kaiser Health News In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch he.... Read More

Genomics in Acute Myeloid Leukemia - A Dynamic Landscape with Elegant Vista

Aug 08, 2017 at 09:21 pm by Staff

By PAVAN KUMAR BHAMIDIPATI, MD Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a fatal hematological malignancy commonly occurring in relatively older population with limited progress in th.... Read More

When Wounds Won't Heal, Therapies Spread -- To The Tune Of $5 Billion

Aug 03, 2017 at 06:07 pm by Staff

By Marisa Taylor Kaiser Health News PHILADELPHIA -- Carol Emanuele beat cancer. But for the past two years, she has been fighting her toughest battle yet. She has an open wo.... Read More

Depression Among Heart Attack Survivors Can Be Deadly, Yet Is Often Ignored

Jul 22, 2017 at 04:14 pm by Staff

By Liz Szabo Kaiser Health News Clyde Boyce has been hospitalized 14 times in the past four years. Boyce, 61, survived two strokes and five operations to unblock a.... Read More

AMA Announces New Online Education to Help Physicians Use and Interpret Cancer Panel Testing

Jul 22, 2017 at 11:53 am by Staff

As part of its program aimed at educating physicians and other health care professionals on the benefits and limitations of genomics and precision medicine, the American Med.... Read More

Double-Booked: When Surgeons Operate On Two Patients At Once

Jul 13, 2017 at 02:44 am by Staff

Sandra G. Boodman Kaiser Health News The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for decades, its safety and ethics largely unquestioned.... Read More

DNA Links Deadly Germs, Tainted Heart Surgery Devices To German Factory

Jul 13, 2017 at 02:21 am by Staff

JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News Contamination at a German factory that makes crucial machines used during open-heart surgery is the likely source of a global outb.... Read More

The Value of MESH

Jul 12, 2017 at 06:38 pm by Staff

By BILL THOMAS, MD When most people think about independence in the context of aging, they connect it to issues related to medical diagnoses and treatment. In fact, the ex.... Read More

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Adjunct Treatment for the Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Jul 11, 2017 at 09:51 am by Staff

Patrice Muse, ARNP, CWOCN There are approximately 26 million diabetic people in the United States ?, with a 15% likelihood of developing a foot ulcer ?. Complications of diab.... Read More

Amount Of Opioids Prescribed In U.S. Has Been Falling Since 2010

Jul 08, 2017 at 11:32 pm by Staff

Vickie Connor Kaiser Health News Ryan Hampton was sitting at his computer at work when he began sweating, feeling sick and unable to concentrate. He went to the bath.... Read More

New On The Streets: Drug For Nerve Pain Boosts High For Opioid Abusers

Jul 06, 2017 at 09:38 am by Staff

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez Kaiser Health News On April 5, Ciera Smith sat in a car parked on the gravel driveway of the Rural Women's Recovery Program here with a choi.... Read More

Hospitals Ramp Up Hyperbaric Therapy For Diabetics, Despite Concerns

Jun 29, 2017 at 08:26 pm by Staff

Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News The Villages Regional Hospital did not sweat its decision to add hyperbaric oxygen therapy in 2013. Hyperbaric treatment, increasi.... Read More

Insect Venom Shortage Stings Allergy Sufferers This Summer

Jun 29, 2017 at 08:15 pm by Staff

JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News As summer begins, signaling peak time for insect stings, allergists across the U.S. are warning of a shortage of a little-known but.... Read More

Responding to Physician Burnout, AMA Adopts Policy to Improve Physician and Medical Student Access to Mental Health Care

Jun 25, 2017 at 04:19 pm by Staff

CHICAGO - With increasing evidence that physicians and physicians-in-training are facing increased burnout, depression and suicide, the AMA adopted policy today aimed at.... Read More

The New War On Sepsis

Jun 22, 2017 at 01:06 pm by Staff

Anna Gorman Photos by Heidi de Marco Kaiser Health News Dawn Nagel, a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., knew she was going to have a busy day, with.... Read More