Showing posts with label consumer health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer health. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Medical Quack: HealthGrades And Other MD Rating and Referral Sites List “Dead Doctors” on Their MD Information Pages And Even Include the Insurance Plans the “Dead Doctors” Honor

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This just goes to show you can’t really believe every thing you read on the web.  I came across this by accident when doing some searches r...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Hospitals Missing Opportunities on Facebook: Results of First Ever Study on How Hospitals Use Facebook - MarketWatch

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A new nationwide study by Verasoni AhHa! and Simon Associates Management Consultants of how hospitals across the United States use Facebook...
Friday, March 11, 2011

FDA takes over Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol plants - Mar. 10, 2011

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The government is taking over three Tylenol plants following a blizzard of drug recalls and a Food and Drug Administration criminal investi...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Fast response crucial in outbreaks of food-borne illness, study finds - USATODAY.com

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Nearly three years after a nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Patients find plenty of health information on line, but not all of it is reliable

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The Internet has no equal as an information storehouse. The trick is to know how to get right to a source of useful information and not was...

Drug maker cited for not reporting side effects - Health - Health care - msnbc.com

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U.S. health regulators have warned Sanofi-Aventis SA's U.S. unit for failing to submit reports of possible serious side effects in a t...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Why Vitaminwater Is Bad For Public Health - Matthew Herper - The Medicine Show - Forbes

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Who needs a flu shot when you can have a bottle of flat sugar water spiked with ascorbic acid and food coloring? At least, that’s the imp...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Reader's Digest Partners With OrganizedWisdom to Close the "Online Health Gap"

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OrganizedWisdom , an expert-driven platform for health and wellness, and Reader's Digest , the world's largest global editorial bra...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Website offers top tips on caring for people with learning disabilities | News | Nursing Times

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A new website, offering practical tips on supporting people with learning disabilities, is proving popular with healthcare providers for it...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Medical News: Cut Daily Salt Intake to 1,500 Mg, AHA Says - in Cardiovascular, Hypertension from MedPage Today

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Daily intake of salt should be limited to 1,500 mg for all Americans, according to an advisory statement from the American Heart Associatio...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Oregon sues Johnson & Johnson over "phantom" Motrin - Jan. 13, 2011

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Oregon has sued Johnson & Johnson for allegedly selling defective Motrin drugs to consumers in the state for more than a year, and for ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

HealthCare.gov (Healthcare Reform, Affordable Care Act)

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Your Rights and Protections Under the Affordable Care Ac...   By Richard Sorian, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever? | Patient Advocate - Kitty Wilde, RN

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Do you starve a cold and feed a fever when you’re feeling under the weather? Or is it the other way around? Good news — starving is neve...
Monday, January 3, 2011

More Patients Making Appointments Online As Doctors Embrace Web - Kaiser Health News

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After relocating to Washington, D.C., Clint Morrison needed a doctor to follow up a tonsillectomy he had a few weeks earlier in California....

New Drug Approvals Slipped in 2010 - WSJ.com

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The Food and Drug Administration approved about 21 drugs in 2010, a relatively modest figure that shows the pharmaceutical industry hasn...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Primary care needs more than 15 minutes for patients, KevinMD.com

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Psychotherapy appointments have traditionally lasted 50 minutes with 10 minutes for paperwork. This has lead to the expression, “the 50-m...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Shoveling Snow? How to Protect Your Back (and Your Heart) - Chronic Pain - Health.com

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Snow and ice can make driving treacherous, of course, but snowfall—especially the wet, heavy kind—can be dangerous even if you never leave ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Everything about medicine is now big business, KevinMD

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Med­i­cine used to be different. Doc­tors couldn’t do too much for you. They didn’t get paid very much and they were focused more on help...

The cost of keeping the terminally ill alive, KevinMD.com

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Last year, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives. And it has been es...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Organ Donation Informed Consent, Is A Single Parent's Sufficient?

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