Archive for November, 2009

The American Dental Association has launched a program with Temple University to train new dental team members as part of a pilot program that works in communities where residents “…have limited access to dental care.” Temple University will recruit and train Community Dental Health Coordinators from urban locations in Philadelphia over the next two years. [...]

Physician Elizabeth Vliet, MD speaks out about rationing for women: I am shocked and appalled at the cataclysmic shift in the guidelines to later age and less frequent mammograms. This is diametrically opposite from the American Cancer Society guidelines, and from what most oncologists and practicing physicians think is needed. I think these new guidelines [...]

As of January 1st, 2010, the AANA Journal will be available to the public, online and free of charge, soon after the publication of their print edition. For more information, click here.

The ASA and eleven specialty societies have come together to work to maintain coverage for facet joint injection procedures.  For more information, click here.

November is National Healthy Skin Month. Every year, the American Academy of Dermatology asks dermatologists to share tips and information. One informative article covers the myths about Vitamin D and sun exposure. Apparently, the risk of exposing your skin to deadly ultraviolet rays outweights the benefits of soaking in Vitamin D through sun exposure. There [...]

A recent study shows that primary care visits have become longer than they were ten years ago, and the improvement in care for the time spent shows “only modest improvements.” To read more on the study, click here.

The topic of the National Pain Summit in Houston, Texas was the need to provide better pain care for patients across all medical fields. “The Pain Summit confirmed that the felt need for better pain care in America reaches across all medical fields. Every day, tens of millions of U.S. citizens are suffering from immobilizing [...]

A new study suggests that oral health providers can play a roll in the overall health and well-being of their patients. The study is published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. Two hundred patients in at private dental practices in Sweden were tested using a computerized system designed by [...]

When placed with ultrasound, interscalene catheters proved to be more effective than when placed with neurostimulation. To learn more about ultrasound guidance versus neurostimulation, click here.

A discovery made by Dr. Robert S. Bray Jr., a neurological spine surgeon, CEO and founder of D.I.S.C. Sports and Spine Center will potentially bring relief to thousands of sufferers of chronic thoracic pain and progressive myelopothy.  A multi-level arteriovenous malformation in the thoracic space has previously not been documented in medical literature.  To learn [...]