Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Amy Barrett	BW 50: In A Bind Over Stents Safety concerns about drug-coated stents from Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific could open the way for rivals.
Managed Care July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Is Pay for Performance Part of the Cure or the Problem? Paying for performance promises improved quality, reduced cost, and higher income for doctors. So why are some of them worried?
Managed Care July 2005	Economically, country mouse does better Although lower income in rural areas is often cited as an obstacle to recruitment of physicians, one study suggests rural and urban areas do not differ significantly - at least, in terms of income.
CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton	An End to Medical Forms? Patients could keep all their medical information online using iHealthRecord, a new service that Medem (a joint venture of the American Medical Association and six other medical societies) introduced in May.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Rager, Bridgeford & Ollila	Cutaneous Melanoma: Update on Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Melanoma is an increasingly common malignancy, and it affects a younger population than most cancers. Selective screening by physicians ultimately may be most effective at preventing the advance of the disease.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Depietropaolo et al.	Diagnosis of Lyme Disease The use of serologic testing and its value in the diagnosis of Lyme disease remain confusing and controversial for physicians, especially concerning persons who are at low risk for the disease. Underdiagnosis may occur if physicians apply the CDC surveillance criteria too strictly.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Wattendorf & Muenke	Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most clinically recognizable form of FASD and is characterized by a pattern of minor facial anomalies, prenatal and postnatal growth retardation, and functional or structural central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Monte C. Uyemura	Foreign Body Ingestion in Children Because many patients who have swallowed foreign bodies are asymptomatic, physicians must maintain a high index of suspicion.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Lee Radosh	STEPS: Colesevelam (WelChol) for Reduction of LDL Cholesterol Colesevelam lowers LDL cholesterol levels a small amount (7% to 16%) when used alone and provides additional cholesterol lowering when added to statin therapy.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Paul Gross	Diary From a Week in Pactice This family physician ponders how medical errors happens, as with his 45-year-old patient... Gets a sad call from the medical examiner... Takes his own daughter to a specialist... etc.
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