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Have parents of your pediatric patients check out this list, which provides some tips to celebrate a safe and healthy holiday season.

It's been more than a year since we passed the Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act. There is an argument that movement will be slow due to market factors and I have to admit that I haven't seen a lot of new technology.

Just what do Insurance companies add when it comes to Health Care? They drain off at least 25% of the premium dollar to pay stockholders and executives.

Genetic factors have been found to affect the response of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors cetuximab (Erbitux) and panitumumab (Vectibix).

For the first time since the war on cancer was declared 37 years ago, the rate of new cancer diagnoses among Americans has begun to decline, according to a new report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

A survey released in November by the Physicians’ Foundation compiled responses from more than 12,000 US physicians, many of them primary care providers, with the goal of presenting a comprehensive snapshot of physicians’ opinions about the current state of the healthcare industry and the prospects for the future.

It’s natural that we respond to people and make judgments about them based on what we believe to be true, but how often do we go beyond what we think to be true and really look at what is happening with our patients?

What happens to your practice when you are out of the office? This is of particular relevance to solo practitioners.

A three-year clinical trial conducted at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University has found that vitamin K can slow the development of insulin resistance in elderly men.

It turns out that there are a number of ALS patients who test treatments themselves rather than move at the slow pace of medical research and have become part of "an emerging group of patients willing to share intimate health details on the Web in hopes of making their own discoveries."

A survey in Massachusetts on the practice of defensive medicine found that 38% of responding physicians reported they have reduced the number of high-risk services they perform...

With the holidays fast approaching, many of us are trying to decide how to handle them with our employees

The following questions are exclusive to CRLive and can assist candidates in preparing for the Maintenance of Certification Exam in Cardiovascular Disease.

Hospitalists can take a little pride in knowing that they are helping to deliver better patient outcomes and are practicing more efficiently than private practice physicians who are treating patients in hospitals.

Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health reported last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine that hormone therapy may produce adverse heart health effects even in women who begin treatment within the recommended timeframe post-menopause.

Everyone expected the ER patient load to go up as the number of people with affordable (or any) insurance goes down, but the fact that some people with insurance actually prefer the ER for routine pediatric care over their PCPs isn’t exactly common knowledge.

While obesity, hypertension, and diabetes have always shared connections, every now and then, scientists manage to make some of the unlikeliest connections. As it turns out, Geisinger Health System researchers found that "antimalarial medication may prevent the onset of diabetes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis."

Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) is typically used as a last resort treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease (and other neurological and psychiatric disorders), it is important that technology and research companies remain up to date on recent developments to make it easier to treat patients with these diseases.

Study results published in the October 2008 issue of the American Journal of Physiology � Heart and Circulatory Physiology reveal that "young African American men have greater central [blood pressure] despite comparable brachial [blood pressure] when compared with young white men."

The findings of a Norwegian study recently published in Archives of Internal Medicine suggest that "the natural course of some screen-detected invasive breast cancers is to spontaneously regress."

According to a new study published in the November issue of the Journal of Law and Economics, childhood obesity could be reduced by up to 18% by banning fast food advertisements in the United States.

This week, the people in the United States take their turn at giving thanks. We, in Canada, did this last month – the first Monday of October every year. It’s nice to pause and give thanks at least once a year, but I think we should be doing it all year long.

The economic news worsens daily. There are no safe guideposts to survival. How can you cope?

Many studies have identified candidate areas for cancer susceptibility on various genes. A recent study has identified another possible locus for an individual’s susceptibility to lung cancer at 5p15.33.

According to study results published recently in JAMA, elevated nonfasting triglyceride levels, previously associated with an increased risk for heart attack, also appear to be associated with an increased risk for ischemic stroke.

Study results published in the most recent issue of General Hospital Psychiatry indicate that "patients with chronic pain are more prone than others are to consider suicide. The increased risk remained even when study authors took the possible influence of mental illness into account."

Hospitalists who are assisting in preoperative and perioperative care need to consider the likelihood of delirium in patients, which can have an increased role in morbidity and mortality, according to Neil Winawer, MD, the director of the hospital medicine service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

Needles can be dangerous in healthcare, especially for nurses, who tend to handle them the most. In fact, the CDC "estimates that more than 800,000 needlesticks and other sharps injuries occur each year in the US," but tend to be "dramatically underreported, by anywhere from 40 to 70 percent."

Certain antipsychotics, particularly olanzapine and quetiapine, are associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), whereas others—like perphenazine, risperidone and ziprasidone—lead to a decreased risk of CHD, results of a new study in the Journal of Schizophrenia Research show.

Sleep disruption is up to 3 times more common in cancer patients. Preliminary results from a recent study indicate that there is an association between disrupted sleep, lower heart rate variability, and flattened diurnal cortisol secretion in women with breast cancer.