Electronic stethoscope helps spot coronary artery disease
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A quick listen with a digital stethoscope might be just as good as CT
angiography for detecting early coronary artery disease (CAD), a recent paper suggests. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
How to measure your biller's productivity
Billing is an important part of your practice, but could you be overstaffed in that area? See how you
can figure out the ideal number of staff members. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Heart attack pattern shifted after Katrina
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart attacks are usually most common on weekdays and mornings, especially
Mondays, but new data analysis shows that pattern reversed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Breast cancer studies often downplay side effects
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abstracts of breast cancer papers published in top journals may not be
providing the most accurate information, according to a new analysis. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
U.S. flu outbreak overwhelms hospitals across the country
BOSTON (Reuters) - With flu cases in Boston up tenfold from last year, the mayor declared a public
health emergency on Wednesday as authorities around the United States scrambled to cope with a rising number of
patients. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Fewer Americans saw doctors during 'Great Recession'
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Americans made fewer trips to their doctors' offices during the Great
Recession than they did earlier in the decade, according to new research. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
FDA approves deep TMS device for depression
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Brainsway received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for use of its Deep
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) device for the treatment of depression in patients who fail to respond to
medication. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Reality TV viewers more likely to tan
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - College students who watch reality television beauty shows are at least
twice as likely as non-viewers to use tanning lamps or tan outdoors for hours at a time, a new study
suggests. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Poor people participate in cancer trials less often
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor people are less likely to take part in clinical trials for new cancer
drugs, which can make it harder to develop treatments, according to a new study. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
One in 25 youth attempt suicide: U.S. study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one in 25 U.S. teens has attempted suicide, according to a new
national study, and one in eight has thought about it. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Stryker says hip recall to cost up to $390 million
(Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Swiss health insurer makes claim against Bayer over Yasmin pill
ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Switzerland's biggest health insurer CSS is supporting a young woman in
her claim against Bayer, as the fall-out from alleged side effects of the German drugmaker's contraceptive pill
Yasmin widens. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
New strain of norovirus spreads around the world
LONDON (Reuters) - A new strain of norovirus has spread to France, New Zealand and Japan from
Australia and is overtaking all others to become the dominant strain in Britain, health officials said on
Wednesday. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 9, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Toremifene does not control prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) puts men at
relatively high risk for prostate cancer, and treatment with toremifene did not reduce that risk in a phase III
trial. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 9, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
ThromboGenics to launch ocriplasmin in United States
ThromboGenics NV has confirmed January 14 for the U.S. launch of ocriplasmin intravitreal injection
(Jetrea) for the treatment of VMA. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 9, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
