South Carolina Veterinary Specialists Installs State-of-the-Art Eklin Digital Practice(R) Technology.
Leading Veterinary Care Provider Uses Cutting Edge Digital Radiography, Ultrasound and Management Practice Software to Support Advanced Diagnoses and Treatment Needs COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- South Carolina Veterinary Specialists (SCVS), a leading regional veterinary care specialty referral practice, announced it has installed the Eklin Digital...

Revering the work of physician writers.
Well before he attended medical school at Columbia University, New York, Dr. Daniel C. Bryant had been captivated by reading and writing, underscored by an undergraduate degree in French literature that he earned from Princeton (N.J.) University in 1961. In the 1980s, he began to notice that...

New guidelines discourage earwax removel.
The age-old advice to clean out earwax on a regular basis is discouraged under the first published guidelines from health care professionals on the subject. "Unfortunately, many people feel the need to manually remove earwax, called cerumen, which serves an important protective function for the ear," says the guidelines'...

Suicide alert skewed antidepressant scripts.
PHOENIX -- The proportion of clinic visits to psychiatrists involving antidepressants for youths fell compared with the proportion of visits to primary care physicians after the black box warning linking antidepressant use to suicidality in youths. However, visits by adults for antidepressants did not change by specialty...

Study Published in the Archives of Internal Medicine Indicates Unsafe Use of Legal Medications.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 August 2008-Study Published in the Archives of Internal Medicine Indicates Unsafe Use of Legal Medications(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com A study published in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine showed a tremendous surge in the number of people who...

Briefs.
COLUMN: Briefs V-F execs elected HOPKINTON - Valpey-Fisher Corp. announced that the board of directors yesterday elected Michael J. Ferrantino Jr. executive vice president and chief operating officer effective Oct. 1. In his new role Mr. Ferrantino will have overall responsibility of the day-to-day operations...

BUSINESS PEOPLE.
COLUMN: BUSINESS PEOPLE CMEA The Employers Association announces the promotion of Mark G. Patrick to president. Mr. Patrick, of North Grafton, has served CMEA membership since 1990, providing consultation on labor, employment and human resources issues. He has been a frequent presenter at CMEA seminars. Also an...

MEDICAL MEMOS.
COLUMN:MEDICAL MEMOS Saint Vincent Medical Group office, 102 Shore Drive, Worcester, has added three new physicians: Dr. Manoj Pulicottil, Dr. Ainum Haq and Dr. Sunita Trivedi. Dr. Pulicottil was an internist for three years with Candler Internal Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine....

Ross University Medicine Graduates Respond to U.S. Primary Care Crisis.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 September 2008-Ross University Medicine Graduates Respond to U.S. Primary Care Crisis(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Overwhelming numbers of Ross University School of Medicine graduates are responding to a deepening healthcare crisis by choosing to go into primary care, the university reported. ...

Tool helps prompt antihypertensive prescribing.
TORONTO -- Computerized reminders that were flashed to primary care physicians as they checked and recorded their patients' blood pressures led to a small but significant improvement in the rate of prescribing drugs that followed hypertension-management guidelines. But in this study, which randomized 14 general medicine clinics...