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A shift has occurred in recent years from viewing menopause as "a natural life event" experienced by women to "a condition that requires medical management."
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Regardless of levels of fat, protein, and carbohydrate proportions, all diets with lowered caloric intake modestly reduced weight.
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The FDA is warning consumers to immediately stop using Hydroxycut products by Iovate Health Sciences, of Oakville, Ontario, and distributed by Iovate Health Sciences USA of Blasdell, NY. Iovate has agreed to recall Hydroxycut products from the market.
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Thirty-four percent of patients on warfarin therapy reported using potentially interacting complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a recent study published on-line April 28 on the web site of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
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We have all heard a story that starts with, "Remember that patient you saw and discharged yesterday? Well, ...." This next series of EM Reports tackles one of the most common subjects of such a story: missed heart attacks.
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When it seems as though nearly everyone is on Facebook, MySpace, or other social networking sites, you can be assured that many of your employees are online chatting about everything under the sun including what happened at work that day. For health care employees, that can lead to a serious breach of privacy if they pass on protected health information.
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The popularity of social networking sites can be helpful when it comes to screening new employees and seeing what current employees are saying on the Internet, says Jeffrey M. Pincus, JD, a partner with the law firm of Lewis Johs in Melville, NY. More companies are searching for a job applicant's online presence as a way to investigate his or her background, he says.
