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Emailing Your Doctor Could Soon Cost You
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- February 10, 2023
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Email has become an easy and essential form of communication between patients and physicians -- so much so that doctors are deluged daily with messages from patients.
Now, some hospitals and health systems have started charging for doctors' responses to those messages, d...
America Facing Shortage of Infectious Disease Doctors
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- December 19, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic. Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The current waves of influenza and RSV ripping through schools and workplaces.
America has had ample examples in recent years of the importance of infectious disease doctors.
Despite this, the United S...
'How Can I Prevent Heart Disease?' Docs Give Different Answers to Men, Women
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- December 5, 2022
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Doctors give men and women different advice to head off heart disease, even though guidelines for both are the same.
Men were 20% more likely to be prescribed statins to lower blood levels of bad cholesterol compared with women, a new study found.
Women, meanwhile...
Most Docs Want Telehealth for Opioid Abuse Treatment to Stick Around
- Cara Murez
- October 17, 2022
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Many doctors who used telehealth to treat patients with opioid addiction because of the COVID-19 pandemic would like to make it a permanent part of their practice.
A new study from Yale School of Public Health surveyed more than 1,100 physicians who treated opioid-use d...
America's ER Docs Alarmed by Rising Violence From Patients
- By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- September 23, 2022
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The stories grabbed headlines during the pandemic: Violent episodes in U.S. emergency rooms where patients attacked doctors.
Alternative Medicine Popular Among Seniors, But Most Don't Tell Their Doctors About It
- By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- July 27, 2022
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Lots of older folks are turning to alternative medicine to help them with the pains of aging -- but they don't necessarily think that's ...
Pandemic Dangers Drive Some Doctors to Switch Jobs, Retire Early
- Cara Roberts Murez
- October 13, 2020
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Dr. Brad Cotton enjoyed working on the front lines as an emergency room doctor. Yet in March, as the coronavirus pandemic burst through the doors at hospitals across the world, Cotton left that more dangerous work behind.
"I left emergency medicine because that was m...
Pandemic Has ER Docs Stressed Out and Weary: Survey
- Robert Preidt
- July 21, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic has left many U.S. emergency doctors with high levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, a new study finds.
The research included 426 emergency doctors (median age: 35) in seven cities in California, Louisiana and New Jersey who were survey...
The AI Revolution: Giving Docs a Diagnostic Assist
- Anne Harding
- June 8, 2020
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Back before coronavirus took over the headlines, every week seemed to bring another report about artificial intelligence besting human doctors at everything from diagnosing skin cancer to spotting pneumonia on chest X-rays.
But these artificial intelligence (AI) tool...
U.S. Primary Care Docs Unprepared for Surge in Alzheimer's Cases
- Amy Norton
- March 11, 2020
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Many U.S. primary care doctors worry they aren't ready to care for the growing ranks of Americans with Alzheimer's disease, a new report suggests.
In a Alzheimer's Association survey, half of primary care doctors said the U.S. medical profession is unprepared for the...
Brand-Name Rx Rise After Docs Get Drug Company Perks: Study
- Robert Preidt
- February 21, 2020
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American doctors prescribe more brand-name medications after they get a free lunch or other incentives from drug company marketers, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed drug prescribing between 2013 and 2015 for a large sample of enrollees in Medicare Part D. The ...
Most Docs Don't Know Hair Care Is a Barrier to Exercise for Black Women
- Robert Preidt
- November 14, 2019
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The extra care that black women's hairstyles can require is often a barrier to exercise, but many U.S. health care providers aren't even aware of the problem, a new study finds.
Researchers surveyed doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the departm...
Buyer Beware: Many Stem Cell Clinics Lack Docs Trained in Treatments
- Dennis Thompson
- June 25, 2019
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There's a good chance the doctor treating you at a stem cell clinic doesn't have any professional training related to your illness, researchers report.
Anesthesiologists, dermatologists, plastic surgeons, radiologists and family doctors are among a wide range of phys...
Do Doctors Hounded by Malpractice Claims Just Shift Their Practice Elsewhere?
- Dennis Thompson
- March 27, 2019
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A bad doctor bedeviled by malpractice claims closes up shop in the dead of night and slips away to another state, hoping to leave his soiled reputation behind.
That's a common scenario many imagine. But the reality is almost as scary, a new study finds.
Mo...
Patients With Primary Care Docs May Get Better Health Care
- Robert Preidt
- February 4, 2019
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One way to get better medical care and more value for your health care dollars is to find yourself a primary care provider, researchers say.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from more than 70,000 U.S. adults who took part in a Medical Expenditure Panel Survey...
Big Pharma's Marketing to Docs Helped Trigger Opioid Crisis: Study
- Dennis Thompson
- January 18, 2019
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Aggressive direct marketing to doctors by pharmaceutical companies is tied to spurring the ongoing epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States, a new study claims.
A county-by-county analysis showed that opioid use increased in places where drug makers focused thei...