Search results for "Public Health"
Safety nets catch at-risk patients
Desai, MD, MPH, director of ambulatory patient safety at the hospital, at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. ... Desai. At the American Public Health Association's meeting, held in November 2019 in Philadelphia, Dr.
January 2020
Know the patient to achieve statin benefits
In the 1980s, the public health message was to “know your cholesterol.” In the 1990s, it was to “know your cholesterol and treat to lower the level of LDL.” Now, Dr. ... Hayward, co-director of the Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research Center of
November 2010
Four days in May
s health, the gender pay gap affecting female physicians, hate crimes as a public health issue, patient safety in the office-based ambulatory setting, reinvention of performance measures to make them ... support scientific research and policies to
July 2017
Working together to stop superbugs
to the registry by the Illinois Department of Public Health once it was detected in the state. ... Lee, an associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
February 2020
Simple family history acts as a genetic test for skin cancer
Indeed, numerous public health campaigns have focused on ultraviolet light exposure as a risk for melanoma.
November 2008
Medicare, many insurers announce coding rules for H1N1
such as needles, syringes, alcohol swabs and sharps containers, free of charge to CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness grantees, also called project area-designated sites, which include entities such as public ... WellPoint will also continue
November 2009
Asthma genetics paving the way for new approaches to care
Integration of these advances for the individual, along with public health strategies for populations, offers the promise of diminishing the burden of individual suffering as well as the societal economic toll ... Dale Halsey Lea, MPH, RN, is a genetic
October 2009
Alaska primary care crisis is tip of the iceberg
With fewer graduates coming into primary care, many communities are hard hit by the loss of experienced physicians, said Fred Ralston, FACP, chair of the College's Health and Public Policy ... Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, the public-health
October 2008
Improving access tops list of small-office tips
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is consulting and crunching numbers for the CPI project. ... Certain practices were better off with a paper system than with an electronic health record, for example.
June 2008
Guidelines diminish cholesterol worries
Can we say what diet is best for health? Annu Rev Public Health. ... A Series of Systematic Reviews on the Relationship Between Dietary Patterns and Health Outcomes.
June 2015