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Preventing a Second Stroke
A large, nationwide clinical trial found that patients at a high risk for a second stroke who received intensive medical treatment had fewer strokes and deaths than patients who received a brain stent in addition to the medical treatment.
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Intracranial stenosis, a blockage or narrowing of small arteries in the brain, accounts for more than 50,000 strokes annually. Patients with severe stenosis are at great risk for a second stroke.
Can I sue the NHS?
Medical negligence occurs when various medical procedures are done incorrectly. Medical negligence can also be a result of an incorrect diagnosis or perhaps even overlooking a serious medical condition. Incorrect prescriptions can also fall under the medical negligence umbrella. In some situations the medical negligence comes as a result of the practitioner failing to get consent in order to perform a particular treatment. Regardless of the reason for the medical negligence you are entitled to some sort of compensation. In many situations you can file a suit against the National Health Care System. In order to have a legitimate claim you must make sure that you have followed five essential steps.
First you should express your concern to the practitioner providing you with the medical treatment. Read full post…
Weight Loss, ‘My Weigh’
When would a guy with a fairly well established reputation for ranting against the gimmickry, failings, and false promises of weight loss programs not only get involved in one, but take pride in having done so? When such a program was done his way. Or in this case, my way.
RediClinic®, which currently operates a network of health care clinics housed in H-E-B® supermarkets throughout Texas and has plans to expand nationally, has just launched their Weigh Forward weight management program. And I do, indeed, acknowledge with pride that I am the medical director of the program and that it was built to my specifications. But before we get back to that, a few confessions.
First, I confess that I did not listen to my mother who told me that I when I had nothing nice to say, I should say nothing at all. It turns out, saying the not-always-nice-things on my mind is an integral part of my job as a medical professional involved in making sure the public gets accurate information about health. There i
Gender Differences in Mental Health
For some time it has been known that women suffer more from depression than men do, or at the very least are more likely to be diagnosed with it. It is likely that there are a variety of contributing factors to this, not the least of which is the difference in how men and women express themselves. A new study tackles the question of which diagnoses seem to impact men versus women, and why.
The study came out of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida and appears in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. It discusses how depression and anxiety are more commonly diagnosed in women and that men are at greater risk to be diagnosed with antisocial disorders and substance abuse.
Blisters
A two year old has multiple blisters on tongue. What could be the cause?
There are multiple possibilities, many of which are not dental related, that could have caused the blisters on your child’s tongue. I would recommend that you take your child to his or her pediatrician for an evaluation of the blisters and their cause.
Fewer Surgical Errors Reported at VA Medical Facilities
WEDNESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) — The number of surgical errors at VA medical centers is on the decline, a new study finds.
In reviewing adverse events and close calls in these operating rooms over a three-year period, researchers report in the July 15 issue of the Archives of Surgery that possible reasons for the drop were a greater emphasis on safety, as well as improved training and communication.
Although the estimated number of errors at VHA medical centers varies by location since each may have different methods for defining an adverse event, researchers from the VA scoured a national database to identify mistakes occurring between 2006 and 2009 and code them into various categories, such as type, body part and cause.
Researchers also found that reports of surgeons operating on the wrong body part ranged between 0.09 per 10,000 patients in some locations to 4.5 per 10,000 patients — a 50-fold difference.
Although the authors found 204 root causes that contributed to the errors, the most common reason for mistakes was a lack of standardization of clinical processes.
The authors noted their findings should benefit those involved in procedures at these facilities.
“Despite the overall decrease in patient harm, opportunities exist to further decrease the number of incorrect surgical and invasive procedures,” the study’s authors said in a news release from the journal.