Systemic corticosteroid-naive elderly women with COPD are significantly more likely to have osteoporosis than are comparable subjects with asthma, Japanese researchers report in the December

Doctors do a whole lot more to improve patient care when they are rewarded for quality, but they rarely receive such incentives, according to a

ד”ר ירמיהו הייניק הושעה בעקבות תלונת מנהל בית החולים; ראש העיריה, שהחליט על הצעד: זו הפרת חובת הציות להוראות הממונים; בא כוחו של הרופא: החלטה

בכנס שהתקיים ב- 9/1 בב”יח שיבא השתתפו אמנם נציגי רוב המפלגות, שר הבריאות ובכירים ממערכת הבריאות. למרות זאת, התחושה הכללית, כפי שמתאר חיים שדמי מהארץ

Two national quality-of-care outfits said Wednesday they would offer a new accreditation program to protect the safety and rights of people in clinical trials and

According to conventional wisdom, high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) occurs above 8,000 feet. However, a case series reported in the January issue of Chest suggests that

A new formulation of beclomethasone dipropionate using hydrofluoroalkane-134a (HFA-BDP) is a safe and effective treatment for children with asthma, according to a report in the

Patients with congestive heart failure combined with asthma tolerate carvedilol poorly, indicating that asthma is a contraindication to beta-blockade.  In contrast, patients with congestive heart

Children with mild asthma and normal pulmonary function can still be considered candidates for early inhaled corticosteroids use, Dutch clinicians suggest.  Pulmonary specialists at the

The outfit that accredits providers of continuing medical education programs for physicians on Tuesday released proposed standards to prevent pharmaceutical companies from controlling the content

For cases at high risk of retained instruments or foreign bodies after surgery, screening plain film x-ray would be cost-effective and should be routine, according

Smoking one cigarette, whether by a smoker or nonsmoker, causes an acute increase in arterial stiffness, results of a study published in the January issue

An official British watchdog said on Thursday that thousands of drug side effects go unreported and that when safety messages are issued they do not

בלי שוחד, בלי פרוטקציה , מאת יורם בלשר , הארץ   בכתבה “כמעט הכל זה שוחדים, פרוטקציה וקשרים” מאת חיים שדמי (“הארץ”, 8.1) הופיעו דברים הקשורים בהסתדרות הרפואית, שאין

לפי פירסום באתר ה- FDA עולה כי ועדת התרופות ללא מרשם של ה- FDA הודיעה ליצרנים ולמשווקים של תכשירים המכילים phenylpropanolamine להפסיק את שיווקם. הוראה

Medical students in Britain often perform intimate examinations on sedated and anesthetized patients without their consent, researchers said on Friday. A survey of more than

Nearly 50% of primary care medical practitioners depend only on chest roentgenograms and do not carry out the recommended sputum microscopy for establishing a diagnosis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jan 10 – In heart failure patients, an abnormal increase in ventilation levels is seen during exercise. Treatment with the beta-blocker

Frequent episodes of sleepwalking and sleep terrors may result from allergies, swollen tonsils, and other factors that interfere with nighttime breathing, and may be cured

Type 1 diabetics with parietal cell antibodies (PCAs) are at increased risk for the development of autoimmune gastritis, iron deficiency, pernicious anemia, and (pre)malignant gastric