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Aside from taking photos, capturing video, surfing the net, providing GPS navigation, and making phone calls, the iPhone is now primed to help hospitalists on their rounds.

Sometimes I get asked why should someone blog and what’s the point of blogging, especially if you work in a field like nursing.

According to a new study, 20% of teenage girls have used their cell phones to send nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves to others.

If you take the 2008 summary of survey results by the Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics, it looks like a large number of adolescents flat out embrace lying.

It’s two weeks before Christmas and I have spent the morning running from room-to-room seeing patients.

Medicare Part D open enrollment ends December 31—premium increases and complex plan descriptions may spur questions from your patients.

The National Community Pharmacists Association continues to offer educational opportunities for pharmacists, as well as seek their input on issues impacting the practice of pharmacy.

Women are having an easier time purchasing OTC Plan B since the FDA ruled it could be sold without a prescription for women 18 years and older.

Budget cuts in New York are leading to pharmacy closures.

A new study has identified a list of widely prescribed medications that should be evaluated to determine how safe and effective they are for their off-label uses.

The negative effects of high-fructose corn syrup have previously been reported in several types of studies.

New evidence-based guidelines have been issued by the American Academy of Neurology to test for distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP).

New research from the Regional Hospital of Bolzano in Italy suggests that "pediatric obesity may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure."

The Medical Records Institute released yesterday "The HIT Status Report 2008," the latest version of its annual "state of the union" review of notable health information technology developments in the past year and preview of stories to watch for in 2009.

According to the newly published results of a recent Mayo Clinic study, breast tumors of less than 2cm in size can accurately be detected by a dual-headed gamma camera used during molecular breast imaging.

Choosing the right business structure used to be much easier. There were bad business structures, really bad business structures, and good business structures. Now, it’s more complicated.

This symposium focused on monotherapy, polytherapy, and new AEDs on the horizon. The presenters explained that although monotherapy fails in approximately 50% of patients with seizure disorders or epilepsy, there are other alternatives.

The results from this year’s Gallup Honesty and Ethics poll were announced just before Thanksgiving and for the seventh year in a row, and eight of the nine polls since they were added, nurses were chosen as the winner.

We conducted a post hoc analysis of the DIGAMI 2 (Diabetes Mellitus Insulin-Glucose Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction 2) trial to assess the impact of glucose-lowering treatment in 1181 diabetic patients who were discharged from the hospital after experiencing a myocardial infarction (MI).

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have reported that use of a new, hand-operated robotic device in combination with a functional MRI (fMRI) has shown that "chronic stroke patients can function normally again."

New research into the capabilities of advanced computed tomography (CT) published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/359/22/2324) revealed "solid evidence that the newer, more powerful 64-CT scans can easily and correctly identify people with major blood vessel disease and is nearly as accurate as invasive coronary angiography."

Lately there has been a lot of research discussing the problem of neuro-infections and how they can lead to people to have seizures I was fortunate enough to talk with Samuel Wiebe, MD, director of the University of Calgary Epilepsy Program and chair of the North American Commission of International League Against Epilepsy, about this topic.

The symposium, "Expert Consensus Process on Patient Safety in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit," featured a discussion on AES research taken from the last two years, which initially featured sending out a survey to evaluate patient care and safety issues in EMUs.

I had the opportunity to talk with Dennis Spencer, MD, Harvey & Kate Cushing Professor Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, President of the American Epilepsy Society, about his research.I had the opportunity to talk with Dennis Spencer, MD, Harvey & Kate Cushing Professor Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, President of the American Epilepsy Society, about his research.

There is no doubt that prevention of VTE by use of thromboprophylaxis (medical or mechanical) has clear benefits in both acute and long-term morbidity and mortality.

If the economy has your practice or office looking for ways to pinch pennies, Google has a few ideas.

When used as electronic diaries for recording and analyzing mood variability in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), personal digital assistants (PDAs), or handhelds, help bridge a gap in communication between therapists and patients, according to the results of a recent University of Missouri study.

If the marketing degree does not qualify one to manipulate the health care offering (that is, the benefit package) to the point that people cannot get the care they need , then what about those MD's with MBA's who are running mega health plans?

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, now called the Mumbai Massacre by many, happened thousands of miles away from Montreal, but geography is not an issue in today’s world.

In examining the brains of people with a chronic pain condition known as complex region pain syndrome (CRPS), scientists found that patients’ brains "looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin."