White coats hit high notes for charity.
Byline: Elizabeth Cooney COLUMN: QUICK TAKES COMING UP Music and medicine will be on stage in the form of performers presenting a concert to benefit local charities. "Doctors in Concert," at 8 p.m. Saturday in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, is the first...

More about how doctors think.
RE: The letter of Sept./Oct. from "Name Withheld" from Adrian, Michigan, in response to "How Doctors Think" in July/August 2008 issue. It may well be that the doctor described as indifferent to his patient of several years is suffering from professional burnout. As an internal...

BUSINESS BEAT.
Byline: The Register-Guard People Drs. Benjamin Cho and Jeff Sharman, both medical oncologists, have joined the staff of Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center in Eugene. Cho earned his medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago and a master's degree from the University...

New Analysis Shows Troubling Trend in Triglyceride Levels May Be Linked to Rising Rates of Obesity.
While LDL control has improved, there is an urgent need for more comprehensive lipid control to protect against heart disease NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A new 30-year analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database conducted by the National Lipid Association (NLA)...

FDA Approves Tapentadol Immediate-Release Tablets for Relief of Moderate to Severe Acute Pain.
RARITAN, N.J., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of Americans with moderate to severe acute pain and their health-care providers will soon have a new treatment option. Today, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C., (J&JPRD), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tapentadol immediate-release tablets...

Medical home promise & problems.
The patient-centered medical home is an idea being promoted by various health care organizations as a way to repair the U.S. health care system. While we can all agree that having a trusted physician coordinate our care is an ideal to strive for, that is not necessarily what happens...

CPC Launches New Web Site Highlighting Medical, Research and Technical Panel, MedClose(TM) VCS Animated Video.
www.CPCMedDevices.com provides latest information to medical and investment communities SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CPC of America, Inc. (CPC) (BULLETIN BOARD: CPCF) , today launched its new Web site, http://www.cpcmeddevices.com/, to provide the medical and investment communities with a wealth of information on the company and...

ReachMD Announces New Strategic Partnership with American Medical Directors Association.
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ReachMD, the first satellite radio channel created for medical professionals by medical professionals, announced today their newest strategic programming partnership with the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA), the professional association of medical directors, attending physicians, and others practicing in the long term care continuum....

People with Diabetes Urged to Have Their Hearing Checked Regularly.
New Study Finds Higher Incidence of Hearing Loss Among Diabetics WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with diabetes are more than twice as likely as those without the disease to have hearing loss, according to a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) study. Overall, more than 40...

Long-Term Management of Endometriosis.
How the healthcare provider and patient can work together MONTVALE, N.J., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- For women, chronic pelvic pain resulting from endometriosis represents a lifelong challenge to obtain and maintain pain relief. Long-term management of endometriosis: A case study and review of the literature, a supplement...