http://blog.physiciansresource.net Physician's Resource Blog Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:53:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As health care reform rages through our government, a new and interesting approach to medicine is making it's appearance as an alternative to making house calls. Coined by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1967, medical homes are systems that provide around the clock access to care using a team ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/a-personal-approach-to-care/ The Xience stent, a flexible metal-mesh tube coated with the drug everolimus, has recently been used in it's first real-life trial and according to Dutch cardiologists, it is performing incredibly well. Though the product was approved by the FDA last July, the effectiveness of the new stent in "complex, ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-equipment/newest-coated-stent-does-well-in-first-test/ Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first pandemic to hit in over forty years. The H1N1 virus, also known as the Swine Flu, has how reached a Phase 6, the highest level, on the WHO's infectious diseases alert. So far, the H1N1 or swine flu pandemic this year ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/swine-flu-pandemic-declared-by-world-health-organization/ According to the World Health Organization, about 1.8 million people die worldwide each year from tuberculosis (TB) and a third of the world's population are infected. In addition, of the 9 million new TB cases annually, about 490,000 are multiple-drug resistant TB or MDR-TB and about 40,000 are extensively drug ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/experimental-drug-works-in-treating-resistant-tuberculosis/ According to the Triangle Business Journal, United Therapeutics Corp. has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell the drug Adcirca for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Adcirca is a prescription medicine used to treat PAH, a life-threatening disease that constricts the flow of blood through the pulmonary ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/united-therapeutics-approved-for-new-hypertension-drug/ A unique new institute will look for ways to treat rare and neglected diseases and take the first and riskiest steps toward bringing new drugs to market, U.S. health officials said in a recent report. According to Reuters news service, the government has provided support for several years to start ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/new-institute-for-rare-diseases/ During a recent web conference sponsored by Avalere Health, Ralph Brindis, incoming president of the American College of Cardiology, called for health care providers in all areas to increase their use of disease registries as to collect better data on quality and performance. According to Brindis, the disease registries will ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/uncategorized/cardiology-leader-urges-use-of-disease-registries/ According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, health care in rural areas is facing cost and availability difficulties, making it an even more dire problem than in urban settings. “Americans in rural communities have seen their premiums skyrocket and are finding it difficult, ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/rural-heath-care-lacking-says-report/ Regardless of the sphere in which it is implemented, new technology is something to embrace. It benefits businesses by increasing productivity and efficiency, and it benefits individuals by offering fun and exciting ways to finish personal projects. In general, technology has the potential to improve the quality of ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/the-importance-of-medical-technology/ According to recent reports from ABC News, a new and exciting breakthrough may have been made in the way we treat patients with broken or deteriorating bones. Forteo, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat osteoporosis, works by activating idle stem cells in bones to rebuild ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/research-on-bones-breakthrough/