IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]
It�s neither a popular subject nor that well-received. At the mere mention of it, you�re quite likely to move quickly onto the next page. Yet, there is a reason I�m writing about it, and if you�re 50 or older or have a loved one who is, then this is especially for you. The subject is [...]
Worst of all, his diabetes and hypertension steadily, relentlessly, mercilessly attacked his kidneys. He went on dialysis in February.
Jones has fallen victim to a quiet epidemic plaguing black Chicago. By the thousands, African-Americans are suffering kidney failure and facing the possibility of blindness, limb amputation, life on dialysis and premature death. Patients with end-stage kidney [...]
When it comes to ways to keep track of our health, a daily peek in the toilet bowl is probably not what first comes to mind. But one gastroenterologist says that your bowel movements can be an important clue to the state of your digestive health.
Dr. Anish Sheth — otherwise known as Dr. Stool — [...]
Patients in Norfolk have been promised a host of health improvement measures in a plan which was today agreed by the county’s health bosses.
A Health Improvement Strategy underpins NHS Norfolk’s priorities for the delivery of healthcare for the next three years with a variety of targets including smoking, obesity and sexual health.
NHS Norfolk’s director of [...]
Dr. Shafiq Qaadri knows how to hook his audience: %26quot;About half of you here are going to die because of a heart attack or stroke.%26quot;He lets a silent pause sink into the room before adding that heart disease is treatable – and preventable. Qaadri, a downtown family physician and MPP in the riding of Etobicoke [...]
It costs an average of $7,000 to treat a patient admitted to a Canadian hospital for at least one night, according to a major report that found about half of all hospital spending goes toward patient stays.
Canadians who land in the hospital with a heart attack, stroke or other circulatory [...]
The American Diabetes Association estimates that 11.4 percent of all African-Americans ages 20 and older have diabetes, and one third of them do not know it. In addition, blacks are twice as likely to suffer from diabetes-related blindness, a disease that often displays no symptoms in the [...]
WASHINGTON - It’s a new way to push for patient safety: Don’t pay hospitals when they commit certain errors.
Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail.
That has the nation’s hospitals exploring innovative programs to prevent injury and infection: Hand-washing spies. Surgical sponges that sound an [...]
TRENTON, N.J. - The country’s biggest program to pay doctors extra for top-notch, comprehensive care, part of a growing national movement to hold down medical spending by preventing mistakes and complications, is expanding , geographically and in what it tackles.
Bridges to Excellence, a nonprofit group, gives doctors annual payments , $50 to $200 per participating [...]
