Search results for "Chronic Diseases"
Physician burnout and suicide
tweaked by organizations charged with optimal care for chronic diseases.
July 2020
The doctor-patient relationship: Is there an app for that?
Artificial organs created in 3-D printers. • Miniature cameras journeying through the digestive tract, circulatory system, and major organs delivering customized treatment for various diseases. • ... Smart phone analysis of saliva sample which will
July 2020
Our health, on fire: the #UseWhatWeKnow campaign
What we know about health promotion, disease prevention, sustainable weight control, and lifestyle as medicine is enough to prevent 80% of all chronic disease and premature death. ... preventable chronic diseases reduce lives to ash and cinder.
July 2020
Whole body screening may harm people with illness and disability
I'll be staying close to home for Thanksgiving. But if I did have plans to travel by airplane for the holiday, I think I'd be apprehensive a...
July 2020
Separation of church and plate
Let us, indeed, let kids be kids, which should certainly include avoiding nasty chronic diseases formerly limited to mid-life and beyond. ... David L. Katz, MD, FACP, MPH, FACPM, is an internationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight management,
July 2020
Asthma treatment used for chronic sinus infections
What many people may not be aware of is that such nebulizer treatments can also potentially be used for chronic sinus infections. ... Nebulized bacitracin/colimycin: a treatment option in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis with Staphylococcus aureus?
July 2020
From policy to results: How does it all come together?
The PCMH pilot tests are showing great promise in improving care of patients with chronic diseases while providing more financial support to physicians participating in them, but they have yet to ... Yet our efforts to improve care for patients with
March 2016
Compression of disability should be everyone's health goal
How do we do that? Unfortunately, some people develop chronic diseases that we do not know how to prevent. ... However, any physician will tell you that much chronic disease develops because of lifestyle choices.
July 2020
QD: News Every Day--2 definitions may help treat Gulf War veterans with multisymptom illnesses
Two existing definitions of chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) should be used to guide research and treatment, the Institute of Medicine said. ... But a wide variation in symptoms, overlap with symptoms from other diseases and conditions, and a lack of
July 2020
For your health, generalists have great lasting value
We also need a generalist when we have several chronic diseases, and many patients fit that description.
July 2020