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Health care providers need to target unhealthy behaviors as seriously as physical risk factors in disease prevention, according to a forthcoming advisory statement from the American Heart Association.
<p style="font-weight: bold;">ABSTRACT: Pediatricians can help guide the families of children with an autism spectrum disorder through the maze of interventions, toward the goal of optimizing these children's potential for a productive, independent, brighter future. This requires an awareness of local resources, smart use of published information, partnership with educational and therapeutic agencies as well as families, and the willingness to be an advocate and provide a medical home. Keeping track of their child's progress in school and knowing when to engage health insurance and Medicaid can also benefit these families. Connecting families to regional institutions' training programs may help reduce the cost of researchbased interventions.</p>
Recent research has indicated that, despite successful antiviral therapy, liver transplantation candidates with hepatitis C virus and alcoholic liver disease may still experience worse outcomes with continued alcohol use.
Primary Care BlogThere’s probably not a physician in practice who hasn’t had a patient come to the office with a briefcase or an iPad loaded with information that they have downloaded from the Internet and want to ask you to review their research and ask for your opinion.
As a pediatric health care provider, you’re acutely aware of the time and effort spent educating young patients and their families about diet and nutrition.
A new study finds that feelings of being socially excluded, or feelings that a friendship has been lost or threatened can lead to physical pain.
Approximately 70% of pregnant women experience pelvic girdle pain (PGP). Therefore, the American Physical Therapy Association has released a new guideline with recommendations for PGP management.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has asked the AGS to assist with its new initiative to improve behavioral health services.
Researchers explored the accuracy of traditional flu surveillance and the concern that it misses many asymptomatic cases in a new analysis.
Michael Gordon MD, MSc, FRCPC is a geriatrician working at Baycrest Health Science System. He is medical program director of the palliative care program, co-head of the clinical ethics program and a professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Late Stage Dementia, Promoting Compassion, Comfort and Care; Moments that Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare and Brooklyn Beginnings: A Geriatrician's Odyssey .
<p><span>A long-term histrelin implant effectively and safely suppresses gonadotropin in children with central precocious puberty, according to new research.</span></p>
The CDC lists Alzheimer's as the 6th leading cause of death in the US, but new research suggests that a more accurate appraisal would put Alzheimer’s closer to the top 2 spots.
By Reuters StaffNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The long-term prognosis of children with epilepsy who undergo hemispheric surgery is good, according to a meta-analytic review.