Frequent Health News
Is a new diabetes treatment FOR the birds? No… it’s FROM the birds.
Researchers from Louisiana State University took a look at how migrating birds make such long flights — and survive without starving. As it turns out, the birds develop seasonal insulin resistance.
Getting out of bed one morning you plant your feet on the floor and begin to take a step. Pain shoots through your foot and you realize that you have a problem. This pain could be due to a calcaneal spur, better known as a heel spur.
Do you know someone who complains of seeing double? Is there a slight crossing of the eyes? These are just two of the symptoms of a vision disturbance known as strabismus.
In: Health Care Law
7 May 2009Virginia Department of Health Professions has issued a News Release regarding the potential breach of security for the Prescription Monitoring Program. The statement also indicates that there is an ongoing criminal investigation into the breach which occurred on April 30.
Also, the Virginia Department of Health Professions has issued a related Questions and Answers document.
Coverage on the H1N1 influenza has been nothing short of constant.
But, how is it affecting your physician’s office? For me, there’s been many questions, some patient anxiety, and lots of diagnostic nasal swabs. But, being in New Hampshire, the prevalence of the H1N1 virus has been relatively low, compared to other parts of [...]
In: Health Care Law
6 May 2009Last week the Federal Register (April 29, 2009) contained a Notification of the Establishment of the HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee. I had previously posted about the creation of these committee and recommended suggested members.
More information will be made available via the “new” Health Information Technology website of the Office of the National [...]
Not for the feint of heart. Consider yourself warned.
Taken from a top ten list of gory YouTube surgery videos via Wired Science.
(via Health Bolt)
In: Health Care Law
6 May 2009Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professions seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:
The conventional wisdom is that practicing medicine over the telephone exposes doctors to potentially more malpractice lawsuits.
But, is that really the case?
In: Health Concerns
5 May 2009 Liked. WTN on Window Mobile platform improves care quality, significantly lowers cost. That might have been my tweet on Twitter. But here on HealthBlog I have the luxury of sharing much more about this innovative approach for managing patients with chronic, non-healing wounds.
Every clinician understands the challenges associated with wound care. The process is [...]
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