With the expansion of health insurance from the Affordable Care Act and other insurance reforms, more patients will have access to physicians. In order to accommodate this increased burden on the healthcare system and increased availability of higher quality care for patients, there will be more widespread use of nurse practitioners.
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine by K. Donelan and co-authors (New England Journal of Medicine 2013, Volume 368, Page…
Many people take multivitamins to try to prevent disease. A recent study confirms that these vitamins do not prevent the leading cause of death in America, cardiovascular disease.
The study and its editorial http://bit.ly/RaLhNO showed that multivitamins had no evidence of benefit despite about 40% of American using them. so what should you do to prevent heart disease?
Here are my tips:
Concentrate on proven methods of reducing heart disease: exercise, weight control, smoking…
No one wants to be in a hospital, ever! But for many illnesses or accidents, hospitalization is needed. Lengths of hospital stays used to be very long, 7-14 days. But with the increased costs of health care in America, insurance companies, hospitals and physicians have taken steps to shorten the length of hospitalizations.
In a recent article, Dr. P. Kaoboli and coauthors studied how long patients were staying in VA hospitals (Annals of Internal Medicine,…
Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in people. When fatigue is severe or constant, many doctors do not spend enough time trying to diagnose and treat the problem, leading to poor quality of life in the person suffering from weakness and lack of energy.
Here are some tips for getting to the cause and treating this common condition:
Ask your doctor to do a complete workup looking for all causes Suggest your doctor…