A health haven for the country's medical tourism.
It is undeniable that healing is natural in our country. Even if different local personalities travel to western countries for health treatments, it is a fact that medical tourism is currently flourishing in the Philippines. More than technologically advanced machinery, we have talented medical professionals who possess...

The safety of outpatient UPPP for obstructive sleep apnea: a retrospective review of 40 cases.
Abstract We retrospectively reviewed the outcomes of 40 patients who had undergone outpatient uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) for the treatment of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in order to determine the safety of the procedure in an outpatient setting. Postoperatively, 36 of the 40 patients (90%) were...

Disability Guidebook.
The Reed Group has released the fourth edition of The Medical Disability Advisor (MDA), a 3,000-page guide designed for managing medical absence. MDA contains descriptions of injuries, illnesses, medical treatments, surgical procedures, and recommendations for duration and specialists. The fourth edition includes coverage of additional medical conditions and surgical...

Does the U.S. need an advanced practice initiative?
This paper summarizes the motivating factors behind the creation of advanced practice initiatives for radiation therapy in Canada and the United Kingdom and for diagnostic radiology in the United States. Three major factors appear to have driven the development of advanced practice: a rapid increase in the use of...

A feminist case against self-determined dying in assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Familiar clarion calls for choice, autonomy, and the moral right to control one's own body ring forth in current movements to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In the United States dedicated activists, some physicians and certain respected ethicists make a moral case for the right to assisted suicide and...

D.R. firm pushes health care in Cuba.
Caribbean Salud, based in the Dominican Republic, offers patients the chance to be treated in nearby Cuba--often for conditions not treatable at home. The arrangement is similar to that between the Cuban government and Health Services International, a Quebec firm which CubaNews reported on last month (May...

Steinberg v. Carhart: women retain their right to choose.
Stenberg v. Carhart, 120 S. Ct. 2597 (2000) I. INTRODUCTION In Stenberg v. Carhart,(1) the Supreme Court held that a Nebraska statute banning partial birth abortions was unconstitutional. In a 5-4 decision, the Court concluded that: (1) the statute lacked any exception for the preservation...

Parents As Partners In The Medical Home.
The Family-Centered Medical Bill of Rights Two-year-old Steve suffered brain damage when he fell at a family picnic. However; after receiving care at the emergency room, he was sent twine. A week later he became ill with flu-like symptoms and returned to the hospital. The diagnosis was...

Surgery of the Skin: Procedural Dermatology.
Surgery of the Skin: Procedural Dermatology, edited by June K. Robinson, MD, C. William Hanke, MD, Roberta D. Sengelmann, MD, and Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS St. Louis, MO: CV Mosby, 2005. Hardcover with DVD, 872 pp., $225.00. Dermatology over the past 20 years has...

Minimal risk in the Tri-Council policy statement.
Scenario 1: An oncology researcher approaches the Research Ethics Board (REB) office of a Canadian institution to request guidance on an REB submission. The researcher, a neurosurgeon, intends to take part in a multi-centre trial of a new agent for the treatment of the intractable and fatal condition Glioblastoma...