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See, I went to my pharmacy over the weekend to get some cough medicine I could take during the day since my prescription meds make me totally dopey (ahh, codeine), on the recommendation of my personal nurse,* and she freaked out when I told her I’d been […]
CNN Headline News anchor Glenn Beck has been making news of his own lately with stories of a miserable emergency room experience, surgery, and recovery at the hospital near his home. From his horrible ordeal comes some really excellent advice to help us all avoid what he went through.
Here are the top 5 things not […]
Whether you’re trying to find out about a new doctor or want to rate your own, Vitals.com is worth a look. It’s a searchable database of physician information and ratings based on data submitted by real patients.
According to a promotional e-mail they sent me, you can use the site to:
Check up on current physicians to […]
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recommends that patients ask at least these 14 specific questions before undergoing surgery, including:
Alternatives to surgery?
Benefits of having the surgery?
Risks of not having it?
A second opinion?
CNN Health suggests that asking questions before surgery can prevent a lot of pain and suffering after.
"Patients should not go in […]
New research indicates a potential solution to stop cancer metastasis by restoring microRNA to cancerous tumors.
They found that in certain aggressive cancers, some of these microRNAs are missing, allowing the aggressive spread of the cancer. When they restored these microRNAs to human breast cancers in laboratory mice, the cancer stopped spreading.
The researchers also found these […]
Part sci-fi movie, part medical marvel, 100% cool. That about sums up the new medical solutions presented last week at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
Wired Magazine was there, and they took a look at five super-cool companies and their offerings:
Predicting biology, by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Ultrasonic fat elimination, by LipoSonix
Smoking, hypertension, and allergy vaccinations, by […]
A recent study published in the journal Anesthesiology indicates that men and women age 60 and older who undergo elective surgery have a lasting risk of long-term memory problems. Among the surgeries mentioned in the Reuters Health report of the findings are hip replacements and hysterectomies.
Said the researchers in a prepared statement, "It is not […]
This is a topic I read about in a recent issue of one of my many magazines, and I can’t find the one: doctors refusing to prescribe birth control and other treatments because it conflicts with their religious beliefs.For religious reasons, I as a patient refuse certain treatments, but I was shocked to learn that […]
As a medical writer and editor, I’ve been seeing lots of controversy surrounding the concept of comparative effectiveness lately. It sounds good in theory, but so far, the execution leaves something to be desired. In short, comparative effectiveness is simply looking at two (or more) treatments for a certain ailment and determining which is the […]
I’m a unique case because I grew up with a beekeeper for a mom, but my family has been using honey to treat scrapes and sunburn as far back as I can remember — and people have been doing the same thing since ancient Egypt and earlier. Interestingly, it’s only recently that science has really […]
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