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23 Doctors Help Houston Woman Deliver Quintuplets

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

You know that saying, “It takes a village”, well sometimes it does. And that’s just to deliver some children. It took a small village to help a Houston woman give birth to quintuplets. 23 doctors in two operating rooms. Thirty-year-old Veronica Mayorga-Real delivered the three girls and two boys by Cesarean section Saturday at Children’s [...]

Patients who e-mail with doctors see their health improve

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Maybe doctors are starting to realize that when you treat patients like actual people, they can heal. Patients with diabetes or hypertension who communicated with their doctors via e-mail got better care and better health outcomes, according to new California research. The improvements as a result of the e-mail exchanges included blood sugar and blood [...]

VA Hospital Says It May Have Exposed 1,800 to HIV

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Here’s another sad story of hospitals doing much harm. Failure to properly clean dental instruments at John Cochran Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Louis may have put 1,812 dental clinic patients at risk of life-threatening diseases. Certified letters were sent out to patients on Tuesday, alerting them to their potential exposure to hepatitis and HIV. [...]

FDA urges doctors to report misleading drug ads

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Could it be that the tide is turning and that the FDA is beginning to have our interests at heart? I’m not so quick to praise them, but this is a good start. The FDA will begin asking doctors to keep an eye out for misleading drug advertisements as part of the agency’s latest effort [...]

Doctors’ Deal With Coke Creates Controversy

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Soft drinks are tasty, but it’s one the worst things affecting our health in this country and around the world. So it’s no surprise that this story has people in an uproar. The American Academy of Family Physicians has a new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola Co. The deal will fund educational materials about soft [...]