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Email as the preferred mode of doctor-patient communication

Posted by malpani | January 05, 2009 | views (9) | comments (1) | Add as friend

I always request my patients to email me rather than phone me for non-urgent matters. I find this is much easier for them - and for me ! I reply to all emails within 24 hours - and since they have to write down their queries, they are well-organised and ask much better questions, so my answers are better. Also, since I give them a written reply, there is much less scope for misunderstandings !...

Busting the common myths about pregnancy

Posted by malpani | January 05, 2009 | views (6) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Pregnancy is one of the most exciting times in a woman’s life and every pregnancy is truly a miracle. Because women having been having babies for centuries, there are still many myths and old wives tales about pregnancy, which modern obstetrics is just starting to dispel.Myth 1. Pregnancy care starts after you get pregnantMost women register with their obstetrician for medical care after they get pregnant. After all, we are all familiar with the adage:...

Baby care - first weeks

Posted by DR.SHAGUNA | January 04, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

First 4 Wk Turns head from side to side. May fixate face or light in line of vision. Visual preference for human face. At 4 Wk Watches person; follows moving object Body movements in cadence with voice of other in social contact; beginning to smile At 8 Wk Head sustained in plane of body on ventral suspension Follows moving object 180 degrees Smiles on social contact; listens to voice and coos At 12 Wk Early...

Your Television Is Not A Physician

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Published on www.brainblogger.com Your Television Never Went To Medical School <font face="Calibri">Often, usually on television, one viewing will often at times see an advertisement for some type of medication- usually one involved in a large market disease state. Such commercials are sponsored by typically large pharmaceutical corporations for particular networks on television. This is called direct to consumer advertising, and both doctors and citizens largely prefer that they do not exist. </font> <font face="Calibri">Since 1997,...

The Unreachable Unavailability of Provenge

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (15) | comments (0) | Add as friend

A fundamental aspect of constitutional due process….. Published on: www.psa-rising.com The Unreachable Availability of Provenge Terminal patients are those who are not expected to live, usually due to an illness such as advanced cancer. Typically, a cancer patient is considered terminally ill if it appears he or she has 6 months or less to live. Cancer patients who are terminally ill, without cure or tolerable treatment, with the expectation that they will...

A Progressive Public Health Concern

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (5) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Another Public Health Care Crisis Obesity is when excess body fat accumulates in one to where this overgrowth makes the person unhealthy to varying degrees. Obesity is different than being overweight, as it is of a more serious concern. As measured by one’s body mass index (BMI), one’s BMI of 25 to 30 kg/m is considered overweight. If their BMI is 30 to 35 kg/m, they are class I obese, 35 to 40 BMI...

Ensuring Objectivity

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Upon information and belief, evidence-based medicine is where the health care provider applies statistically significant and relevant evidence acquired through quality and valid clinical trials utilizing the scientific method. The health care providers assess the risks and benefits of how they choose to treat or not to treat their patients. This paradigm of a practicing health care provider is to better predict the outcomes of their treatment of their patients. Such providers recognize the need...

It's A Dopamine Thing

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Serotonin Enhancing Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals In the 1930s, physicians approached the mental illness of depression a bit differently that we do today. While acknowledging a likely cause of depression in one of their patients is often due to some great misfortune, they seemed to focus on what is called a complex. A complex is disturbances of ideas and impulses that are the cause of consistent habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior. An example of...

Pleural Inflammation

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (2) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Pneumonia acquired while a patient is in a medical institution is called nosocomial pneumonia. Often, the symptoms are more severe, as the patient usually has another serious medical issue that is being treated in the medical facility as they acquire this type of pneumonia. If this type of pneumonia is acquired at such a location, it usually happens after the first 48 hours of a patient being in such a facility. Also, the microbe that...

Large Molecule Growth

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (6) | comments (0) | Add as friend

The Innovation of Biologics (Specialty Drugs): How Is Value Defined Regarding Their Use? Beginning in the late 1970s, biopharmaceuticals were being researched conceptually for potential creation in at that time in some academic institutions throughout the United States. And it was here that actual researchers in fact conducted basic research to identify new product candidates as they applied a great amount of time and effort fueled by their curiosity of what may be possible. ...

Killing Low Lifes

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

There are a variety of different types of infections one can get from many different sources, yet some are more common than others. Strept infections are caused by what are called gram positive bacteria, and are unique that these bacteria grow in pairs. Staph bacterial invasions are gram positive as well, with MRSA microbes being very difficult to treat normally with a patient invaded by this class of bacteria. These pathogenic or disease causing bacteria...

A Failed Attempt At Misperceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (11) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Published on www.brainblogger.com: While it seems that pharmaceutical company sponsors of clinical trials usually end up with results that clearly favor their meds studied in their trial, there are rare exceptions, and Merck and Schering proved that with their disappointing ENHANCE Trial, which many have heard about through the media not long ago. The drugs studied were Vytorin, which was compared with Zocor Vytorin is a combination med for high cholesterol and contains Merck’s...

Diabetic Innovation

Posted by quiact | January 03, 2009 | views (1) | comments (0) | Add as friend

The Pumpers: Better compliance for Insulin-dependent diabetic patients With some diabetic patients, the hormone known as insulin may be absent, yet it is necessary for their survival. As I recall, a man named Pauescu developed the concept of insulin replacement from a actual dream he had one nigt, and afterwards went on and discovered a method of using insulin secreted from pigs as a replacement method for humans, which was effective at that time....

Happy New Year 2009

Posted by meraMD Admin | January 01, 2009 | views (3) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Best wishes to all our members for the year 2009. Hope you have a great year ahead! Happy blogging. :-) From everyone at the meraMD.com team.

Dental tourism in Pune

Posted by shreedentalclinic | December 30, 2008 | views (7) | comments (0) | Add as friend

Root canal treatment along with crown in USA costs Approx.1500 to 2000 US dollars.The same treatment(Same quality or better clinically as well as radiographically) in my clinic costs INruppes 5000(Apprx 100-120 Us dollars).NRI patients regularly visit our clinic from Australia,Singapore,Uk,USA,New Zealand,UAE etcFor details vist website www.shreedental.com

IVF - what everyone needs to know about IVF

Posted by malpani | December 30, 2008 | views (6) | comments (0) | Add as friend

IVF Presentation on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/malpani/ivf-what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-ivf-presentation?type=powerpoint

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