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2022 JUN 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Drugs and Therapies - Genitourinary Tract Agents. [...]

I offer screening mammograms to my patients starting at age 40. I have developed a little script to explain that I recommend them routinely by age 50, but at younger [...]

In 2011, the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) published the first-ever position statement regarding the role of the registered nurse (RN) in ambulatory care. Since that time, tremendous [...]

Vaccines have been proven effective in preventing disease and are one of the most cost-effective and successful public health initiatives of the 20th century. Nevertheless, adult vaccination rates in the [...]

Most resourceful pediatric practices have discovered ways to avoid becoming overwhelmed with the volumes of paperbased information that we collect and distribute every day. More than just a way to [...]

Today, thanks to evolving special education legislation (see definition box: IDEIA, page 42), as well as increased knowledge relative to student learning profiles or the unique learning strengths and challenges [...]

Most artists work with the same materials and techniques recommended by the first teacher who introduced them to drawing and painting. But what if those standard approaches aren't the best [...]

In this article ... Learn how a North Carolina practice went completely electronic is a very short time, with physicians leading the charge. Tomorrow night I'm on call for my [...]

I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY, where it's cold for a good part of the year, and whenever the temperature drops to 32 degrees or below it becomes difficult to paint [...]

The growing credit crisis in the United States may be centered on homeowners and lenders, but in tough financial times, no group can afford to be financially illiterate. Although most [...]

DAVID C. POWERS' DRAWINGS are so large that viewers can't escape feeling as if they are walking into the dense woodland scenes to join the people who are shown swimming [...]

If you happened to drop by the Supreme Court session on April 26, during which the justices were hearing a rather dry case involving antitrust violations, you would have glimpsed [...]

The lack of statistical support and knowledge has been cited as one of the most important obstacles to research in emergency medicine. (1) This is perhaps not surprising as for [...]

Objectives: To investigate the influence of general practitioner (GP) endorsement on participation in screening for colorectal cancer based on a faecal occult blood test (FOBT). Setting: South Australian residents (n=2400), [...]

Multifactoral explanations of human behaviour now predominate in the human services areas. Rob White describes, evaluates and critiques the implications of this approach before considering the impact of implementing community-based [...]

Objective: To evaluate dissemination of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) Smoking cessation clinical practice guideline in community health centres. Design: Pre- and past-trial. Setting: Fourteen community [...]

Objectives: To investigate socioeconomic variation in participation in flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) screening for colorectal cancer. Design: A prospective study nested within a multicentre randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of [...]

Objectives: To evaluate the early outcome of an organised mammography screening programme in an area with little opportunistic screening. Setting: The municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, during four invitation rounds 1991-99. [...]

Objectives: Screening by faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is effective in decreasing mortality and incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC). Immunochemical tests have proved to be more cost effective than guaiac [...]

Many private practitioners leave the hospital or educational sector with a desire to escape the endless paperwork required to keep order in their work lives. They spend the first few [...]

In early 2008, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative began supporting the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization (BIDPO) with their electronic health record (EHR) initiative. [...]

This is second in a series of articles written by Steven J. Ersser, PhD (Lond), RGN, Bsc (Hons), CertTHEd, on the challenges faced by dermatology nurses related to the application [...]

This paper explores the dynamics of the counseling relationship specific to Naturopathic philosophy. The role of the physician and the responsibility of the patient in the process of healing are [...]

For the first time, a report details the knowledge and skills needed to be considered a competent specialist in vascular medicine or catheter-based peripheral vascular interventions, but it doesn't mention [...]

A.R. Feinstein (+) At the end of the second world war, the prime scientific goal in clinical medicine was to make a correct diagnosis. Its importance was demonstrated by the [...]

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) launched its Nurses are Essential in Health and Aged Care Reform White Paper at Parliament House in Canberra last month, marking a strategic bid [...]

I noted a barrier to engaging with research is the gigantic volume of evidence that is produced every day. Indeed even in 2014, it was estimated the scientific output worldwide [...]

Practice nurses face working longer hours following a drive to extend access to general practice. The primary care White Paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, which was published last [...]

Summary Health care increasingly emphasises the team approach in which doctors, nurses, and other health workers adapt and develop new skills. Before changes of this kind are widely accepted, however, [...]

A summary of key views on NHS reform plans. Responses from the main NHS bodies broadly support the White Paper's plans to hand commissioning to clinicians. The most hostile opposition [...]

Commissioning is an inevitable part of the future for GPs. Nick Bostock reports on why the profession is worried. The avalanche of policy and consultation papers emerging from the DoH [...]

Daniel Brookbank says GPs must plan ahead for hard budgets and the other reforms. Last month's White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, has been billed as the most [...]

RCGP chairman Mayur Lakhani calls on GPs to comment on the White Paper by 4 November. Earlier this year, Patricia Hewitt announced that a White Paper on health outside hospitals [...]

Raising awareness about the impact of dispensing proposals is vital, writes Dr Jeremy Phipps. The Pharmacy White Paper, published in April, is the biggest threat to dispensing and rural general [...]

Dispensing practices are at risk from DoH plans for pharmacies, says the DDA's Dr David Baker. In her introduction to the White Paper 'Pharmacy in England, Building on strengths - [...]

Wound management should be addressed by a multidisciplinary team, with PTs playing a key role throughout. That's the theme of a new white paper that describes the current state of [...]

One GP is aiming to cut out the paper trail from general practice, says Jacky Law. If Dr Adem Akyol had his way, his Ramsgate surgery would be entirely paperless. [...]

This Wednesday the government releases its White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety: The regulation of health professionals in the 21st century. This is the response to the chief medical officer's [...]

Mo Girach tackles some frequently asked questions in the light of information currently available. Will the GPC successfully negotiate a directed enhanced service to deliver GPs' new commissioning duties instead [...]

The government has unveiled wide-ranging plans to provide 'stability, stability, stability' for looked-after children in England. Care Matters, its long-awaited green paper on children in care, proposes testing GP-style social [...]

Practice nurses will take on 35 per cent of traditional GP work under White Paper plans for primary care, according to a leading GP clinician. Professor Mike Kirby, director of [...]

Plans to shift work out of hospitals may fail due to a lack of proper infrastructure in primary care. Joe Lepper reports. Central to the government's White Paper Our health, [...]

Despite being 'sidelined' in the primary care White Paper, there is scope for nurses to expand their roles, says Judy Sands. Primary care and community nurses have been 'sidelined' in [...]

Alternative models for providing immunisation services will be developed under plans in the White Paper on primary care. The document states there is an increasing trend of GP practices opting [...]

PCT services and GP practices will come under tougher scrutiny from next year, with underperforming providers closed and contracts tendered out, according to government proposals. The primary care White Paper [...]

There is good news, but more work needs to be done, says Dr Richard West. As I'm sure you will know by now, it appears that dispensing is safe for [...]

Scottish practices face erosion but are fighting to protect services, writes Dr Iain McLean. Dispensing north of the Esk/Tweed line has been undertaken by GPs for generations. Located in rural [...]

The GPC is concerned that the public consultation on the healthcare outside hospitals White Paper is too vague to give valuable answers. The DoH launched a series of five public [...]

Pharmacists who tested an electronic system to access package inserts liked the touch screen device's ease of use, readability, up-to-date drug information, and safety alerts, compared with paper sheets, according [...]