Helping children cope with procedures.
Medical advances provide clinicians with powerful diagnostic and treatment tools, but a child must be able to cooperate to benefit from them. Learning how to cooperate and participate with medical care at a developmentally appropriate level is important for any child. For children with special needs or chronic medical...

Jehovah's Witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation.
INTRODUCTION (1) Ask an American judge or doctor what he (or she) knows about the medical beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses. The response will probably be that Witnesses devoutly refuse to accept blood transfusions for either themselves or their children, even to save a life. Since 1945, the...

Cleveland Clinic CEO To Speak on the 'Quality Revolution' at Largest Healthcare Expo in the Middle East.
Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove M.D., Renowned Heart Surgeon and Cleveland Clinic CEO Will Address the "Leaders in Healthcare" Conference at Arab Health 2007 in Dubai, UAE CLEVELAND, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Arab Health 2007, Booth 3A10 -- Cleveland Clinic, ranked among the top three hospitals in America...

Does Physician Specialty Affect the Survival of Elderly Patients with Myocardial Infarction?
Objective. To determine the effect of treatment by a cardiologist on mortality of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack), accounting for both measured confounding using risk-adjustment techniques and residual unmeasured confounding with instrumental variables (IV) methods. Data Sources/Study Setting. Medical chart data and longitudinal...

Defining the limits of a physician's duty to disclose in Massachusetts.
I. INTRODUCTION Medical malpractice litigation is commonplace in society and the courts are compelled to delineate the legal parameters of physician disclosure beyond those facts directly related to the proposed medical procedure. (1) In the past several decades, informed consent has grown from requiring disclosure only of...

Wait-time guarantees for health services: an analysis of Quebec's reaction to the Chaoulli Supreme Court decision.
The Quebec government's response to the Chaoulli Supreme Court decision (1) regarding unreasonable wait times and private health insurance has been to introduce guaranteed wait time limits for certain health care services. This article examines two documents: Guaranteeing Access: Meeting the Challenges of Equity, Efficiency and Quality (the White...

Classification and low back pain: a review of the literature and critical analysis of selected systems.
Key words: Classification, Diagnosis, Low back pain. The concept of classification has recently gained interest among researchers and clinicians involved in the care of patients with low back pain (LBP). This interest is due, in part, to the fact that LBP is most often not attributable to pathologies...

Fundoplication beat medical treatment in taming GERD.
PHILADELPHIA -- Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication appears to offer better overall control of gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms than does optimized medical therapy for patients who are stable and symptomatically controlled on long-term medical therapy, according to a randomized study of 101 patients. At 3 years after the start...

iPlan Neuroradiology*: Advanced Image Analysis Software for Improved Diagnosis by BrainLAB.
Neuroradiologists Can Now Directly Link Their Diagnostic Results to Treatment Options in Surgery, Drug Delivery and Radiation Oncology WESTCHESTER, Ill., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- BrainLAB AG, a global leader in image-guided medical technology, today announced the availability of iPlan(R) Neuroradiology, which provides advanced image processing tools for...

Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital Becomes First Facility in South America to Offer Image-Guided Radiation Therapy.
The BrainLAB ExacTrac X-Ray 6D IGRT System Enables Physicians to Pinpoint Tumors With Millimeter Accuracy SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, one of the leaders in innovative healthcare in Latin America, today announced the implementation of the BrainLAB ExacTrac(R) X-Ray 6D Image-Guided...