Patients as consumers
" Hereâs my question: How did it become normal, or for that matter even acceptable, to refer to medical patients as âconsumersâ? The relationship between patient and doctor used to be considered...
View ArticleFDA warns of contaminated swabs in first-aid kits
If you own a first-aid kit made by Atwater Carey, be careful. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that the disinfecting iodine swabs included in certain kits might actually cause...
View ArticleWhat Medical Condition Is The Most Costly To Employers?
Okâ¦hereâs a brain teaser. What medical condition is the most costly to employers? Iâll give you a hint. It is also a medical condition that is likely to go unrecognized and undiagnosed by...
View ArticleâThe Top Ten Things You Need To Know About Engaging Patientsââ¦and the Why
This report also explores the concerns that come with patient engagement and the advantages and strategies that should be explored. (more…) Tags: health reform, medical home, wellness (Source:...
View ArticleMore HUD Community Development Duds
By Tad DeHavenLocal officials, like their federal and state counterparts, spend other peopleâs money. Policymakers are naturally unlikely to spend other peopleâs money as carefully as they would...
View ArticleFDA issues new rules to make children's drugs safer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to make it a little harder for the medicine to go down. Over-the-counter children's medicine, that is, such as cough syrups, pain relievers, and cold...
View Article7 heart-healthy gifts for Mom
If the Mom in your life doesn’t need another picture frame, pan set, or vacuum cleaner, go with something that keeps her smiling, feeling young, and on her toes—the gift of heart health. Here are seven...
View ArticleExamine nursing course options
This is a guest post by Patricia Walling who is a web content creator with an avid interest in healthcare and nursing. Patricia can be reached by email at: patwalling85@gmail.com As a field, nursing...
View ArticleTruth, feel, praise
Psalms is not a book I've always found inspiring. However, dissection - of anything, animal, plant, insect and word - happens to be my strong suit. When I heard this explanation of the lyrical form of...
View ArticleBlogging by Twitter?
Oh man, I’ve been busy. I filled in as writer of the Midwest edition of Payers and Providers the last two weeks because regular editor Duncan Moore, a former colleague, had been hospitalized. (Get well...
View ArticleBedbugs may carry MRSAâbut don't panic yet
Bedbugs are back. And more than just creepy-crawly pests, scientists now worry that the parasites might be connected with a much more serious bug: A particularly nasty bacterium called MRSA....
View ArticleHIE, ACOs Are the âFast-Moving Trainâ of Health Reform
Healthcare and health IT are plagued by conundrums. Providers long have been the ones asked to make hefty investments in EMRs and other IT systems to help remove costs from the healthcare system, but...
View ArticleEMR and HIPAA: HIE, ACOs the âfast-moving trainâ of health reform
I’ve just finished my latest post for EMR and HIPAA, based on a session I moderated this week at the the Institute for Health Technology Transformation health IT summit in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Here’s...
View ArticleUsing Music to Relieve Depression
Caught in a terrible conundrum of whether I should break my diet over New York Super Fudge Chunk or Chunky Monkey at Ben and Jerry’s yesterday, I was reading the different fliers pinned to the...
View ArticleWhat Is The Best Type Of Thermometer For Babies?
A fever in an infant can be the first sign of an illness. While a rise in body temperature above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit is part of a healthy immune system response, it does signal potential danger...
View ArticleHow Can One Online Test Help Fight Disease?
A recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health has shown that online health site RealAge.com successfully motivated employees to initiate and adhere to a health-management plan resulting in...
View Articlemsfâd
i am, and thatâs the way it is. last saturday night, we stood in a puddle around stacked soda crates, a goat sizzling over coals beside us, when the three, buzzed-out speakers in the canteen started...
View ArticleZombie Apocalypse preparedness: Donât forget your âgo-bagâ
Now, we don't really think the world will end tomorrow. On the other hand, you never do know when disaster will strike. So, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out yesterday, it...
View ArticleSelf-Exploration: Getting To Know Thyself
Many of us go through life skimming the surface of our identities. That is, we donât truly dig deeply into our thoughts, feelings, desires and dreams. Part of the problem is that weâre always on...
View ArticleA long-term care crisis is brewing around the world: who will provide and pay...
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. By 2050, the demand for long-term care (LTC) workers will more than double in the developed world, from Norway and New Zealand to Japan and the U.S. Aging populations with...
View ArticleAn At-Home Laser Hair Removal System That Works
Without going into TOO much detail of how I know this… I have personally observed that the TRIA Laser Home Removal System does work after observing its use and its effects over a 6 month period of...
View ArticleTreatments For ADHD A Few Home Truths
There is a lot of talk nowadays about how ADHD behavioural therapy is probably one of the best treatments for ADHD.certainly treating ADHD without meds is an appealing proposition. Then there are...
View ArticleHome Sleep Studies Gets a New CPT Code
First approved in 2008, unattended home sleep studies now have been assigned a permanent CPT code. Historically, sleep studies have been performed during an overnight stay in a hospital or a lab, but...
View ArticleFederal agencies team up to warn of radon dangers
Nine federal agencies have joined forces to develop a Federal Radon Action Plan that will target the number one cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. A colorless, odorless gas, radon causes an...
View ArticleShopping for hearing aids often fraught with difficulty
Buying a hearing aid has to rank among the most tedious of shopping experiences. To begin with, it's not an item that people are excited about buying. For another, these devices can cost thousands of...
View ArticleHome based remedies for damaged hair
Sonal Bahuguna: Repairing Damaged hair at homeDamaged hair can be treated with home based remedies. Donât feel that maintaining damaged hair is tough and canât be done at home. There are several...
View ArticleDare To Be Happy
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~ Frederick Douglass Letâs get this out in the open: I am bipolar II. That means the mania is really low-key and infrequent and the depression, at least...
View ArticleAnother happy patient from Malpani Infertility Clinic !
We had been married for 10 years. We had our careers, home, and friends everything going for us. Just one thing made us feel incomplete, especially me, not having a child of our own. Initially we felt...
View ArticleThanks to Normal, Illinois for Book Signing
Lots of thanks to the very kind people of Normal, Illinois for coming out to the book signing at the Library last week. Here are a couple of pics from that signing. (Source: Caregiver Survival: I Hate...
View ArticleCape Town, South Africa
XDR-TB survivor and peer counselor, Xoliswa Hermanus, inspects the family home of Jonas (right); a woman infected with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), HIV and diabetes. Khayelitsha...
View ArticleHOME » Health and Fitness Add/Adhd Who Is Pushing the Drugs
The drug pusher may not the guy on the street corner. It could be someone who you would not suspect. It could be your child selling your prescription drugs to his peers, these mood alternating drugs...
View ArticleFor high blood pressure, home measurement is best
If you have high blood pressure, you’re better off taking measurements periodically at home than relying on those taken in your doctor’s office, according to a recent study in the Annals of Internal...
View ArticleNo such thing as an allergy-free dog? Say it ain't so, Bo
Sorry Bo, but a new study says that there may be no such thing as a low-allergy or allergy-free dog. So chew on that while you’re romping around the White House with Sasha and Malia (who reportedly has...
View ArticleHow to Reach Members of the Military and their Families?
As I was researching The Happiness Project, I was struck by the fact that I often found it more helpful to read about one person’s idiosyncratic happiness project than to read about general principles...
View ArticleResearch and clinical trials
I was doing some research on clinical trials and it is much more complex than I dreamed! First of all, any new treatment must go through numerous stages of testing before its benefits and risks can...
View ArticlePoison ivy, a gardenerâs nemesis
Recent rains and warm temperatures have resulted in a bumper crop of poison ivy and doctors have seen an increase in outbreaks in recent weeks. Getting rid of poison ivy and its partners in pain,...
View ArticleSocial Network Keeps Seniors Connected
Care Innovations, a joint venture between GE and Intel, has released Connect, a service designed to address social isolation in seniors. Connect software runs on a touch screen device and features...
View ArticleManaging Labor Pain Without The Use Of Drugs
No one likes pain, least of all pregnant women. Although obstetricians do a great job providing prenatal care and childbirth deliveries, there is always room for improvement regarding patient...
View ArticleThe scent of cooking
At the moment, I am not cooking anything so if our kitchen smells of anything, it is of the pot of orange-flavored tea that I just brewed. But when I am cooking something I hate to turn the fan on; I...
View ArticleWhat Should People Receiving Health Care Be Called? Empowered Patient Vs....
âThere is a better way â structural reforms that empower patients with greater choices and increase the role of competition in the health-care marketplace.â Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) August 3, 2011...
View ArticleProtect yourself from hpv!
I was getting my sonâs physical for school the other day and the doctor talked to us about HPV. What is it? HPV, or humanpapilloma virus, is a very common sexually transmitted virus. In fact,...
View ArticleSenior Boom Creates A Demand For Home Health Workers
At her home health care agency here, Venus Ray quizzes 65 job applicants assembled before her: Can they cook? Do they know the right way to wash their hands? Can they safely transfer patients into...
View ArticleHow-to Guide Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Post-Acute Care...
Scan or click to download 'How-to Guide Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Post-Acute Care Settings to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations' Title: How-to Guide Improving Transitions from the...
View ArticleCoordinating Patient Care Incentives
Medical Home is a reimbursable approach to managing patient care, and CMS has financially supported the approach with steady physican payment increases. First studied as a tool for managing patients...
View ArticleMy Freezer Died and a Hurricane is Coming
What losing a freezer that I've had for 25+ years and Hurricane Irene have to do with the other, I'm not sure, except for the fact that if we lose power, I won't have to worry about what to do with all...
View ArticleIrene's advancingâget out of her way and stay safe
Hurricane Irene is barreling toward North Carolina, where a hurricane warning is in effect, and hurricane watches have been posted for Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and New...
View ArticleFDA: ShoulderFlex Massager has 'life-threatening' dangers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against a personal neck massaging device yesterday. The ShoulderFlex Massager, say federal regulators, can be lethal. The ShoulderFlex Massager,...
View ArticleKeeping your food and water safe after Irene
If you’re one of the millions feeling the after effects of Hurricane Irene in the form of power outages, flooding, and other damages, food and water safety is a paramount concern. To avoid illness from...
View ArticlePoor sleep linked to high blood pressure
Older men who regularly miss out on deep, restorative sleep have an 80 percent increased risk of developing high blood pressure, according to a study out this week in the American Heart Association’s...
View ArticleCan a Hurricane Make You Happy?
I was in London at Heathrow Airport when I learned that my flight back to Newark, New Jersey was canceled. More than that, they explained that Newark and all the surrounding airports in the New York...
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