Posted on June 16th, 2008 by ffortin
Healthcare for the Aging: Geriatric Care America is aging fast. Estimates are that by the year 2021, the 65-plus age group will exceed 70 million people. At the same time, we’re seeing a growing shortage of physicians, especially in primary care and geriatric care. The American Geriatrics Society, for example, has warned that we only [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by ffortin
Healthy Minds: Psychiatric Care Psychiatry is the medical specialty of diagnosing, treating and preventing mental illness, including substance abuse and addictions. Each year, one in five Americans is diagnosed with a form of mental illness, such as depression, anxiety disorders, or substance abuse conditions, among others. What is the medical science behind psychiatry? What are [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by ffortin
Primary CarePrimary care physicians represent a patient’s focal point in the health care system. They coordinate overall medical care, refer to specialists when needed, provide health plans with necessary information for insurance purposes, and much more. Yet these physicians are increasingly in short supply, creating challenges for patients in getting and maintaining good care. What, [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by ffortin
Ready or Not? Emergency Preparedness We live in a world today when disaster can strike at any time. The threats of bioterrorism, chemical spills, flu and infectious disease pandemics, natural disasters and severe weather are real and frightening. The destruction of the World Trade Center in New York and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by ffortin
Pathology and the Patient Television has likely done more than anything else to put the medical specialty of pathology before the American public. Police and crime dramas and reality programs on forensics are perhaps the public’s first introduction to pathology, solving crimes and performing autopsies. But physicians who practice this specialty play a critical role [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by ffortin
Medical Images: The Specialty of Radiology CT’s, PET-scans, MRIs, mammograms, and body scans are much-used terms in medicine today. They are part of the language of radiology, the medical specialty of diagnosing and treating disease and injury by using medical imaging techniques. Spurred by rapid advances in technology, radiology allows us to see deep inside [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2007 by ffortin
The Two Sides of Plastic Surgery Plastic surgeons performed more than 10 million cosmetic procedures and nearly 5.5 million reconstructive procedures in 2005. Cosmetic procedures jumped 11 percent from the previous year, prompting The American Society of Plastic Surgeons to note that "cosmetic surgery is the new take on ‘growing old gracefully’." What should patients [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 by ffortin
Men’s Health Research has shown that men get sicker and die earlier than women. Males also account for nearly 10 times the number of occupational injuries and more than four times the number of suicides than women. And males also die prematurely at higher rates than women as a result of engaging in risky behaviors, [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 by ffortin
Managing Pain Pain management has become a separate and growing field of research and treatment in the medical field, as more and more people experience pain from conditions like fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, and other areas of chronic disease. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control, in fact, said that 10 percent of Americans [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by ffortin
Gastroenterology: "GI Health" Gastroenterology is the medical specialty dealing with the function and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts, liver, and all the digestive organs. It treats conditions such as colon polyps and cancer, hepatitis, gastroesophageal reflux, ulcers, colitis, gallbladders, irritable bowel syndrome, and pancreatitis. When should [...]
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