RCGP Curriculum - 8 Care of Children and Young People
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 8, Care of Children and Young People, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 10:28 AM --
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RCGP Curriculum - 6 Genetics in Primary Care
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 6, Genetics in Primary Care, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 10:20 AM --
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Health And Safety Executive Warns Of Dangers In Failing To Maintain Plant Equipment After Driver's Death, UK
The Health and Safety Executive has warned of the danger of not maintaining plant equipment after the death of a telescopic forklift truck driver, who was crushed between the descending arm and side of his vehicle. The warning follows the prosecution of two companies in relation to the incident at the Davyhulme Waste Water Treatment Works, Rivers Lane, Trafford, Greater Manchester, on 18 September 2003. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 08:00 AM --
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IOM Comparative Effectiveness Research Priorities Report
A new report from the Institute of Medicine recommends 100 health topics that should get priority attention and funding from a new national research effort to identify which health care services work best. It also spells out actions and resources needed to ensure that this comparative effectiveness research initiative will be a sustained effort with a continuous process for updating priorities as needed and that the results are put into clinical practice. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 08:00 AM --
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Condom Distribution Program In Los Angeles County Jail Might Be Expanded
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is considering expanding an eight-year-old program at Men's Central Jail that distributes condoms in a unit for gay men, the Los Angeles Times reports. Under the program, an outreach worker from the nonprofit Center for Health Justice visits the jail once weekly to distribute about one condom per inmate to the unit's 300 inmates. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 08:00 AM --
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Prevention Does Not Necessarily Provide Expected Cost Savings
Senate Democrats and Obama administration officials hoping that preventive care would create federal savings have been disappointed to learn that it does not create expected cost savings. CQ Politics reports: "The problem, as lawmakers are discovering to their frustration, is that the logic is wrong. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 08:00 AM --
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Clinical quiz - foot problems
We've got four pictures of four foot problems. Are the accompanying statements true or false? (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 07:59 AM --
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What's the large, solid mass on this man's thigh?
When this patient presented with what he thought was a muscle injury, Dr Ayakannu Kandiah was reminded of a previous case (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 07:41 AM --
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Researchers call for caution on antibiotics for infant ear infections
Young children who are given antibiotics to treat acute ear infections are 20% more likely to suffer from recurrent ear infections than children given a placebo, according to Dutch trial research published online in the BMJ... (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 07:07 AM --
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Exclusive: Minister blames GPs for poor patient survey response
Health minister Mike O'Brien has blamed GPs for poor response rates to the patient survey as over 17% of practices receive no points for the disputed access question PE8. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 06:32 AM --
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Bone density monitoring of no benefit, researchers claim
Routine bone density monitoring of women on bisphosphonates is pointless and potentially misleading, researchers say. (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 05:43 AM --
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Darzi centre funding dwarfs GMS cash
Exclusive: The GP-led health centre jointly run by BMA chair Dr Hamish Meldrum is one of many receiving vastly higher levels of funding than traditional practices, Pulse can reveal. (Source: Pulse)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 03:01 AM --
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Investigation call over insulin glargine cancer risk
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes is calling for an 'urgent' investigation of a possible link between insulin glargine and cancer following data from five studies. (Source: Pulse)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 02:00 AM --
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Kidney donor GP helps total stranger
A GP has taken his adherence to the Hippocratic oath to new extremes after becoming one of the first people in the UK to donate an organ to a total stranger. (Source: Pulse)...
POSTED 07/01/2009 at 02:00 AM --
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'Grossly unfair' survey will strip millions from general practice
The results of this year's patient survey results mask a 'gross unfairness' that will take millions of pounds from general practice, according to the BMA. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 07:54 PM --
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Health visitors can tackle child obesity, say doctors
The BMA has called for health visitors to be trained to tackle the childhood obesity crisis. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 07:07 PM --
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Frequency of GP communication addressing the patient's resources and coping strategies in medical interviews: a video-based observational study
Conclusions:
The frequency of communication about coping and resources was very low. Communication skills training for GPs in this field is required. Further validating studies of this kind of measurement tool are warranted. (Source: BMC Family Practice)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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Meta-analysis Finds Statin Benefit in Primary Prevention
(Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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Value of CRP and Other Cardiovascular-Risk Biomarkers Questioned
(Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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FDA Panel Votes to Ban Vicodin, Percocet
(Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)...
POSTED 06/30/2009 at 06:00 PM --
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