A new study from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) highlights the problem of inappropriate prescribing in elderly patients in the United States. The study also underscores the importance of safe use of prescription...
Representatives of the American Academy of Family Physicians (www.aafp.org) will hold a press conference at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., on December 14 to discuss the role of family physicians in the dealing with the threat of...
In a report issued earlier this week, Surgeon General David Satcher called for better healthcare for the mentally retarded. The report was the product of the Conference On Health Disparities And Mental Retardation, held in Washington, D.C...
The American Medical Association (AMA) voted earlier this week at its Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates to include the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) in its Specialty and Service Society...
Business Editors/Hi-Tech & Medical Writers ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2001-- eMedicine.com, Inc., producer of the vast eMedicine World Medical Reference, announced today an entirely new way for medical institutions and...
eMedicine.com, Inc., producer of the eMedicine World Medical Reference, has announced a new way for medical institutions and organizations to deliver accredited Continuing Medical Education units to their staff at very low cost...
Medical publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and software developer Global eMedicine are collaborating with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military...
Cardiologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Duke Clinical Research Institute and other leading medical centers officially launched a 60,000-patient project aimed at encouraging physicians to follow published practice...
• In a Capsules item on a General Accounting Office investigation of coding course practices that appeared in the September/October issue, page 238, one association was misidentified. The presentation given at a meeting of the American Academy of...