New Online Resource for Clinicians, Medical Faculty, Students and Practitioners - The Medpedia Project today announced Advancing Women's Health, a universally accessible resource for educational and teaching tools focused on sex- and gender-specific women’s health for clinicians, medical faculty, medical students and health practitioners. Created by members of leading women's health organizations and the largest women physician's organization in the U.S., Advancing Women’s Health is aimed at improving women's health by recognizing and applying evidence-based medicine to the specific issues, concerns, and medical responses that affect women. The free resource is available now on Medpedia.
Brain Fitness Revenues Jump on Strong Consumer Demand. According to a new report by Ambient Insight, the US consumer demand for brain fitness applications is growing by a robust five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 51.2%. Annual consumer expenditures on these products reached $13.0 million in 2009.
AskTheDoctor.com has set up their first US location in Miami, Florida and have hired on eight full time medical doctors. To keep up with demand, Askthedoctor.com has set up a US office in Miami, Florida and has hired eight more full time physicians specializing in different areas of medicine. The Canadian company plans a larger US expansion in the coming months with a possible expansion into Europe by the end of the year.
As National Nutrition Month draws to a close, leading Pediatrician Dr. William Lawrence Jr. of Sixty Second Parent encouraged parents to continue developing healthy living practices with their children throughout the year. Dr. Lawrence’s concern about the eating habits of children are reflected in the figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing the doubling of childhood obesity rates in preschool children over the past 30 years, which signifies the severity of the issue.
The last several months have presented one worrisome story after another regarding the dangers of CT scans... including more than 200 patients receiving radiation overdoses while undergoing brain scans at a California hospital... unpredictable and widespread variation in radiation dosing for cardiac scans from one hospital to the next... and a new research report revealing that the cancer risk from radiation in a CT scan may be far higher than was thought. Two studies on this topic were published in the December 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. One of the studies reports that just one scan can deliver enough radiation to cause cancer and predicts that 29,000 new cancers will develop that can be linked to CT scans received in just the year 2007.
A lack of quality sleep can cause accidents, affect your relationships, health, and mental abilities and make you feel generally disconnected from the world. Do you wake up feeling groggy? Do you have to hit the snooze button two or three times before getting out of bed? Does it take several cups of coffee just to start your day? The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke states that about 40 million people in the United States suffer from chronic long-term sleep disorders each year and an additional 20 million people experience occasional sleep problems.
Doctors Improving Healthcare have tried to highlight some of the easiest ways to live a stress free life. Too much workload could result into stress. There are many effective ways to deal with stress and stress related problems. But the real remedy lies in following these ideas. We have tried to highlight some of the easiest ways to live a stress free life.
February is a month devoted to heart awareness and serves as a reminder for people to evaluate their risk of heart disease through screening. For Shane Mayer, February is a reminder of the close call he had with his own heart at the age of 19, and the lifesaving cardiac care he received at Northwest Community Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.