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Medical Missions in the Philippines: A Band Aid Approach to Medical Care?
POSTED: 10/8/2009 After a particularly long day on a recent mission, our newest volunteer surgeon observed, “With what it cost me to leave my practice for a week—what with the overhead, the lost income and the travel expenses to come here—we could have built a small clinic.” He was right; the dollar, weak as it is, still buys a lot in the Philippines. Unfortunately, however, it’s not that simple. read more & comment | |
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Military Care: Does It?
POSTED: 8/12/2009 For active-duty soldiers, the constant stress of military life and potential horrors of combat often exact a severe mental toll. An estimated 400,000 soldiers suffer from a psychiatric disorder, running the gamut from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse—but fewer than half seek treatment for their illness, leading to rising suicide rates. read more & comment | |
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Improving Mental Health Care:
Its Time To Talk Dollars
POSTED: 7/22/2009 Experts believe that an ideal mental health service delivery system would be evidence-based, consumer-driven, culturally congruent and recovery-focused. It remains to be seen how this would be achieved with the current economic downturn. read more & comment | |
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Behavior Changes Key to Assessing Pain in Autism
POSTED: 6/24/2009 Experts agree that consultation with parents is essential to pain assessment and management of children with autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, careful questioning about both the onset and timing of new behaviors can yield important clues in patients who often cannot communicate that they are experiencing pain. read more & comment | |
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Sodium Oxybate Improves Fibromyalgia Pain, Study Says
POSTED: 3/23/2009 Researchers have found that sodium oxybate (Xyrem, Jazz Pharmaceuticals), a drug approved by the FDA for narcolepsy and cataplexy, significantly improves pain in patients with fibromyalgia. read more & comment | |
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MD Men: How the ‘Evil Geniuses’ of Tobacco Marketing Used Doctors To Peddle Cigarettes
POSTED: 2/10/2009 Physicians today may be central to smoking cessation efforts, but that’s a relatively recent development. For much of the last century, American medicine had a cozy relationship with Big Tobacco—at best ignoring patients’ tobacco use and, at times, shilling for cigarette makers who had grown concerned that the nation was turning against smoking. read more & comment |
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