Blog Category: Health Industry

Should health care professionals include Twitter handles on their CVs? Some say yes!

Should health care professionals include Twitter handles on their CVs? Some say yes!

In recent years, the impact of social media on our society has been profound. Now, a new generation of academics are looking at the role that social …

IBD Medical Home Interview

Dr. Regueiro interviews medical professionals across the various disciplines in the IBD Medical Home at the Cleveland Clinic. This patient-centric treatment model assembles both physical and mental health practitioners at the community level, delivering best practices in prevention, screening and …

AMA Moves to Ban Direct-To-Consumer Pharmaceutical Ads

According to the AMA, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals and medical devices drives up health care costs and should be banned. [More…]…

Diagnostic Method for Alzheimer’s from Sweden Becomes International Standard

Researchers at Gothenburg University have developed a reference method for standardized measurements that diagnose Alzheimer’s disease decades before symptoms appear. The method has now formally been classified as the international reference method, which means that it will be used as …

National Academy of Medicine Establishes Standards for Psychosocial Treatments

A new report by the National Academy of Medicine, titled, “Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Framework for Establishing Evidence-Based Standards” highlights the need to strengthen evidence on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions, and to …

Less Than Half of Alzheimer’s Patients and Caregivers Told Diagnosis

The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2015 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report found that only 45 percent of people with Alzheimer’s disease or their caregivers say they were told the diagnosis by their doctor. In contrast, more than 90 percent of people …

New Guidelines on Sleep Apnea

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) has released new clinical practice guidelines on sleep apnea, sleepiness, and driving risk on non-commercial drivers. Published in the June, 2013 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the new guidelines, are an …

Interns may devote only 12% of their time to patients

In the New York Times (5/30) “Well” blog, Pauline W. Chen, MD, writes that a “dramatic decrease in time spent with patients compared with previous generations appears to be linked to new constraints young doctors now face, most …

Physician Payments Sunshine Act Released by CMS

This month the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)released a final rule on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, outlining a timeline for its implementation. This is designed to  increase public awareness of financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers …