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"A handshake that made healthcare history" was recently published describing the 'business of medicine,' which I must contrast with 'medical business' as it is the sticky point in this series.

The results of a new study indicate that the

The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 48,000 new cases of head and neck cancer for 2009.

I am convinced that we essentially sabotage both our guests and ourselves when we offer only these high calorie and often totally unhealthy options time and time again.

New data presented at the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggest that estrogen therapy may be beneficial to controlling metastatic breast cancer.

How many times over the last year was an article published about new treatments for and possible cures of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and early prevention methods?

What is the worst thing you’ve seen as a nurse?

I'm inviting you to share in a little schadenfreude at the expense of brand new players planning to or actually entering the health care field.

I don’t know how many parents approach you about buying a pet for their child as a present, but there is at least one family that bought a yellow lab puppy this week.

New evidence suggests that it may be time to rethink the suggested diabetic diet.

Last month, The Joint Commission, the nation’s primary standards-setting and accreditation organizations for hospitals, published a report detailing the issues that hospital leaders face today, as well as what issues they might need to plan for in the near future.

With the help of functional MRI (fMRI), Italian researchers at the University of Udine have found that in patients who suffer from stress-related psychiatric disorders, the neural circuitry that links the prefrontal cortex to the hippocampus is dysfunctional, hampering memory suppression.

According to an American Heart Association news release, "age-adjusted death rates for coronary heart disease and stroke have each reached about a 30 percent reduction since 1999." However, this welcome news is offset by troubling trends in several risk factors, including rising obesity rates among children and adolescents, as well as chronic lack of exercise among adults age 18 years and older.

Jeffrey Harris, MD, president of the American College of Physicians, last week sent an interesting letter to prospective Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle. In it, he proposed that any "stimulus package" enacted in president-elect Barack Obama’s administration should "provide a ‘down payment’ on expanding health insurance coverage and delivery system reforms to reverse a growing shortage of primary care physicians."

There is an increasing number of people are choosing to be buried with their BlackBerries, cell phones and other personal gadgets.

Modulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system using angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) has been shown to have beneficial effects on blood pressure, diabetic nephropathy, coronary heart disease, and heart failure.

How would your patients react to the knowledge that they might be able to control migraines by zapping them away instead of using prescription drugs?

Only 25% of girls have been vaccinated against HPV with Gardasil. What can be done to improve this rate, and should boys be vaccinated, too?

Government funding for pain research has dropped in the past five years, declining more than 9% a year since 2003.

It’s never hard to find news about the obesity epidemic in America. Do a quick Google search and you’ll retrieve no shortage of articles on the subject.

Pediatricians take note that researchers have found HIV to penetrate the mucosal lining of the vaginal tract.

There are many things I believe nurses need to think about for the year's end and the new year.

Highly respected medical institutions estimate that 750,000 Americans traveled abroad for care last year and 6 million a year will venture outside the US by 2010.

The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati and the American Academy of Family Physicians announced the launch of HealthLandscape.

Researchers in PA found that using money as an incentive for people to lose weight might just be the answer.

Scientists in London have discovered the mechanism by which cells normally repel each other, a process that is often skipped in cancer cells.

In their post hoc analysis of the DIGAMI 2 (Diabetes Mellitus Insulin-Glucose Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction 2) study, Mellbin and colleagues suggest that insulin therapy after myocardial infarction (MI) may be associated with increased clinical events (not mortality), whereas metformin therapy may be associated with reduced events and sulfonylurea therapy with neutral effects.

Researchers recently announced that they have discovered a "novel gene mutation among the Old Order Amish population that significantly reduces the level of triglycerides in the blood and appears to help prevent cardiovascular disease."

We studied platelet adenosine diphosphate P2Y12 receptor antagonism and inhibition of platelet aggregation in patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Tel Aviv University researchers recently announced that brushing the teeth of ventilated patients three times a day, even if the patients are unconscious, can significantly reduce the onset of pneumonia.