The AIDS Healthcare Foundation banned all Pfizer drug reps from its 14 clinic facilities on Thursday because it believes Pfizer is promoting Viagra in a way that encourages irresponsible use of the drug among crystal meth users.
Patients should be kept informed of their condition and care said health minister Rosie Winterton today, as she called on healthcare professionals to make more effort to routinely copy letters to their patients.
UCSD Medical Center has announced plans to pursue discussions with Sharp Memorial Hospital toward a potential collaboration in heart transplantation.
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The Group of Seven industrialized nations plans to sign an agreement to provide $1.5 billion to develop vaccines for diseases — including HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria — that largely affect developing countries.
Director of clinical operations Dr Joe McGirr of Greater Southern Area Health Service, Australia, advised all general managers in GSAHS to “improve the current fiscal position” by implementing cost-cutting measures.
Many physicians feel no obligation to tell patients about legal but morally controversial medical treatments or to refer patients to doctors who do not object to those treatments, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the Feb. 8, 2007, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
People who receive implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) as a preventative measure don?t need the same driving restrictions as people who get an ICD after surviving a life-threatening heart rhythm disturbance.
One in three American children born in 2000 will develop type II diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A new study at the University of Missouri-Columbia says that acute exercise — as little as 15 minutes a day — can have a profound influence on preventing and fighting the disease.
Loren Miller, M.D., M.P.H. has found no reliable epidemiological or clinical risk factors that could distinguish patients with CA-MRSA infection from patients with CA-MSSA infection. “What this means,” says Dr. Miller, “is that the average Joe or Jane can get CA-MRSA.”