Day: August 1, 2010

Red Flag Rules provide additional protection against identity theft.

Maintaining a successful practitioner-patient relationship requires cooperation between both parties. Practitioners bear the majority of the burden in providing the best possible service for patients. Those patients, on the other hand, are responsible for directing the practitioners, and for paying…

Bone fractures and joint pain are more prevalent in overweight thannon-overweight children and adolescents.

Matt Herring, CPed mixes humor with health for his customers.

Electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to reduce medical errors, curb medical costs and improve patient safety. The computerization of these records can also streamline patient care management and allow practitioners to gather information more efficiently, according to the…

The July 6 implementation date of Internet-based provider enrollment chain and ownership system (PECOS) placed added pressure on DMEPOS suppliers to inform those who have not yet registered in the system to do so. Some of that pressure has been…

The incidence of multiple traumatic limb loss is rising among service members in battle, also increasing the mortality rate, the rehabilitation time and the difficulty of prosthetic fitting. Despite these severe injuries, however, veterans from the Vietnam War report relatively…

William C. Oates lost an arm in the Civil War but that did not keep him
from further serving his country.

Hospital costs for posterior spinal fusion (PSF), the most common surgical treatment associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), has increased by more than 100% from 1997 to 2006, a study found. Charles T. Mehlman, DO, MPH, director of musculoskeletal outcomes…

To date, 19 states have passed parity laws, but othersare waiting for more information about federal health care reform.