Chefs And Doctors Team Up To Address Women’s Health Issues

Local surgeon Dr. Lori Choi talks about I’ll Have What She’s Having, an organization addressing women’s health issues through the combined efforts of area chefs, restaurateurs, and physicians. Abner Fletcher. | Posted on April 3, 2018, 2:05 PM. I’ll Have What She’s Having/Facebook. I’ll Have What She’s Having is an …

The Indiana State Medical Association and the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation announced the first statewide program to teach physicians best practices for prescribing opioids. State law now requires prescribers to receive opioid prescription training every two years. The Indiana State Medical …

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has reversed its decision to stop covering an anti-arthritis injection for knees that some doctors insist helps …. Blue Cross Medical Director Jerry Johnson said the Blues decided to continue covering the injections for now after meeting with doctors who presented articles …

“They have not read the articles or practice guidelines.” Skepticism has spread around the world, Dr. Jauch said, and he has come to expect naysayers wherever he goes. In Saudi Arabia, where he was lecturing at a conference, a Saudi doctor said over dinner that he simply did not believe in T.P.A..

Some medical experts have praised the regulation as a check on addiction. But the proposal has also drawn a broad and clamorous blowback from many people who would be directly affected by it, including patients with chronic pain, primary care doctors and experts in pain management and addiction …

The Trump administration this month announced its own effort to update the Electronic Health Record systems, which disrupt the doctor-patient relationship. The government could do even more good by deregulating EHRs, establishing a free market for user-friendly products. Perhaps Amazon, through its …

Doctors researching unexpected infant deaths have discovered a baffling trend: The rate of those deaths among newborns has remained unchanged even as the numbers in older infants have dropped over 20 years. The finding on sudden and unexpected infant deaths (SUID) is surprising, says Joel Bass, …

… failing health-care system (Toronto Sun); Doctors say government neglect, mismanagement to blame for sorry state of health care (CBC News); Update on the Proposed Regulation of Cannabis: Health Canada Releases Summary of Public Feedback (Lexology). General Health & Other Interesting Articles.