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Leading Surgeons Discuss Vertebroplasty Options for VCFs
In recent months, much has been discussed about the advances and advantages of kyphoplasty to repair vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). However, vertebroplasty, which researchers developed in the early 1990s as a minimally invasive method to fix VCFs by injecting cement into the fracture to strengthen the bone, has been unfairly described by some healthcare professionals as, well, almost archaic.
by Lynne Jeter |
UAB Travel Medicine Clinic Named One of the Nation's Best
When UAB's Travelers Health Clinic was named one of the top travel clinics in the United States by Condé Nast Traveler last month, it came as no surprise to members of the Birmingham health community. The clinic, directed by David O. Freedman, MD, is the largest travel/tropical medicine clinic in Alabama and serves the entire state as well as areas of Mississippi and Tennessee.
By Ann B. DeBellis |
UAB Travel Medicine Clinic Named One of the Nation's Best
When UAB's Travelers Health Clinic was named one of the top travel clinics in the United States by Condé Nast Traveler last month, it came as no surprise to members of the Birmingham health community. The clinic, directed by David O. Freedman, MD, is the largest travel/tropical medicine clinic in Alabama and serves the entire state as well as areas of Mississippi and Tennessee.
By Ann B. DeBellis |
Local Allergy and Asthma Experts Share Insights
According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, approximately 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, including 9 million children. Nearly 5,000 people die from asthma every year. With these sobering statistics in mind, Birmingham Medical News spoke with several respected local allergy and asthma specialists.
by Robert Phillips, MD, MPH |
Local Allergy and Asthma Experts Share Insights
According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, approximately 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, including 9 million children. Nearly 5,000 people die from asthma every year. With these sobering statistics in mind, Birmingham Medical News spoke with several respected local allergy and asthma specialists.
by Robert Phillips, MD, MPH |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. John Croushorn
After the September 11th attacks, when most Americans were anxious about their own personal safety, Dr. John Croushorn did something different. He left his burgeoning medical career, volunteering for the Mississippi Army National Guard's 185th Aviation Group, where he served as a flight surgeon. His personal mission was to mend wounded soldiers, as many as possible.
by Zelda Miles |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. John Croushorn
After the September 11th attacks, when most Americans were anxious about their own personal safety, Dr. John Croushorn did something different. He left his burgeoning medical career, volunteering for the Mississippi Army National Guard's 185th Aviation Group, where he served as a flight surgeon. His personal mission was to mend wounded soldiers, as many as possible.
by Zelda Miles |
The Stark and Anti-Kickback Protection for Donations of EHR Systems
Last month I discussed the electronic prescribing technology safe harbor under the anti-kickback statute and exception under the federal physician self-referral law (Stark). This month's article will focus on the exception and safe harbor protection for donations of interoperable health records systems (IHRS).
by Jim Hoover |
The Stark and Anti-Kickback Protection for Donations of EHR Systems
Last month I discussed the electronic prescribing technology safe harbor under the anti-kickback statute and exception under the federal physician self-referral law (Stark). This month's article will focus on the exception and safe harbor protection for donations of interoperable health records systems (IHRS).
by Jim Hoover |
Asthma Prevalence Rates and Employer-Paid Costs
Asthma is a major concern for employers.
Research out of Harvard Medical School has shown that asthmatics have absenteeism and "presenteeism" (impaired while at work) rates in excess of other, healthier employees.
Asthma Prevalence Rates and Employer-Paid Costs |
Asthma Prevalence Rates and Employer-Paid Costs
Asthma is a major concern for employers.
Research out of Harvard Medical School has shown that asthmatics have absenteeism and "presenteeism" (impaired while at work) rates in excess of other, healthier employees.
by Adam Long, PhD |
Asthma Day Camp
Children's Harbor, a non-profit organization affiliated with Children's Hospital, is offering an Asthma Day Camp for children ages 7-12 with moderate to severe asthma. The camp runs June 13-15.
by Robert Phillips, MD, MPH |
Asthma Day Camp
Children's Harbor, a non-profit organization affiliated with Children's Hospital, is offering an Asthma Day Camp for children ages 7-12 with moderate to severe asthma. The camp runs June 13-15.
by Robert Phillips, MD, MPH |
How Are Things at Work?
When a patient shows up at the internist's office complaining of chronic cough and mild asthma symptoms, most doctors look to the usual suspects — allergies. But how many physicians think a sick building might be making their patient sick?
by SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
How Are Things at Work?
When a patient shows up at the internist's office complaining of chronic cough and mild asthma symptoms, most doctors look to the usual suspects — allergies. But how many physicians think a sick building might be making their patient sick?
by SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Screening Colonoscopies: Good Patient Care and Smart Medical Business
Gastroenterologists Miles Gresham, MD, and Greg Champion, MD, want general practitioners to understand the importance of making screening colonoscopies for their patients at the age of 50 a standard of care, because they want to save lives. But both make the point that having patients screened is just good business as well.
by Marti Webb Slay |
Screening Colonoscopies: Good Patient Care and Smart Medical Business
Gastroenterologists Miles Gresham, MD, and Greg Champion, MD, want general practitioners to understand the importance of making screening colonoscopies for their patients at the age of 50 a standard of care, because they want to save lives. But both make the point that having patients screened is just good business as well.
by Marti Webb Slay |
New Procedures Improve Ability to Visualize the Small Intestine
When the usual colonoscopy and small bowel series don't identify the source of gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroenterologists have two relatively new tests to turn to for answers. One is the capsule endoscopy, and the other is a Double Ballooon Endoscopy™.
New Procedures Improve Ability to Visualize the Small Intestine |
New Procedures Improve Ability to Visualize the Small Intestine
When the usual colonoscopy and small bowel series don't identify the source of gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroenterologists have two relatively new tests to turn to for answers. One is the capsule endoscopy, and the other is a Double Ballooon Endoscopy™.
by Marti Webb Slay |
Uterus Transplant Raises Ethical Questions
Times are changing in reproductive health. Now, post-hysterectomy women or women who are barren due to injury or illness may be able to have a baby by not only using someone else's frozen embryos but also a deceased donor's uterus.
by Gloria Butler Baldwin |
Uterus Transplant Raises Ethical Questions
Times are changing in reproductive health. Now, post-hysterectomy women or women who are barren due to injury or illness may be able to have a baby by not only using someone else's frozen embryos but also a deceased donor's uterus.
by Gloria Butler Baldwin |
Leading Surgeons Discuss Vertebroplasty Options for VCFs
In recent months, much has been discussed about the advances and advantages of kyphoplasty to repair vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). However, vertebroplasty, which researchers developed in the early 1990s as a minimally invasive method to fix VCFs by injecting cement into the fracture to strengthen the bone, has been unfairly described by some healthcare professionals as, well, almost archaic.
by Lynne Jeter |
MGMA Winter Conference
The Medical Group Management Association of Alabama held its annual Winter Conference at the Wynfrey in early March, with 240 practice administrators and 62 exhibitors in attendance. The theme of the conference was effective communication skills.
by Steve Spencer |
MGMA Winter Conference
The Medical Group Management Association of Alabama held its annual Winter Conference at the Wynfrey in early March, with 240 practice administrators and 62 exhibitors in attendance. The theme of the conference was effective communication skills.
by Steve Spencer |
AAPS Raises Alarm over Sham Peer Review
Dr. Lawrence Huntoon is a man on a mission.
For years now, he has been on call to groups around the country, willing to raise a cry against the abuses of a peer review system which he says is being manipulated to muzzle whistleblowers and rein in healthcare competitors.
by John Carroll |
AAPS Raises Alarm over Sham Peer Review
Dr. Lawrence Huntoon is a man on a mission.
For years now, he has been on call to groups around the country, willing to raise a cry against the abuses of a peer review system which he says is being manipulated to muzzle whistleblowers and rein in healthcare competitors.
by John Carroll |
Giving Flite Gives Hope to Patients
In the middle of telling a story about a couple being reunited with their premature baby following Hurricane Katrina, Russ Buchanan takes an emotional pause. Not only is it a moving story, Buchanan is more than just a teller of the tale. Giving Flite, the organization he helped found, played a major role.
by June Mathews |
Giving Flite Gives Hope to Patients
In the middle of telling a story about a couple being reunited with their premature baby following Hurricane Katrina, Russ Buchanan takes an emotional pause. Not only is it a moving story, Buchanan is more than just a teller of the tale. Giving Flite, the organization he helped found, played a major role.
by June Mathews |
Physician-Owned Medical Centers: The Timing is Right
The Birmingham healthcare community seems constantly to be reinventing itself. The most significant development in some time may be the transition of Carraway Medical Center to Physicians Medical Center Carraway. Along with several other hospitals in Alabama, this hospital has transformed itself to a majority physician-owned for-profit facility.
by Colin Luke |
Physician-Owned Medical Centers: The Timing is Right
The Birmingham healthcare community seems constantly to be reinventing itself. The most significant development in some time may be the transition of Carraway Medical Center to Physicians Medical Center Carraway. Along with several other hospitals in Alabama, this hospital has transformed itself to a majority physician-owned for-profit facility.
by Colin Luke |
Mid-Career Burnout in Physicians Prevalent, Yet Preventable
One day when Dr. Steve Gabbe was taking a break while attending a science conference, he wasn't terribly surprised to hear a half dozen colleagues sharing their frustrations about work, but he was deeply concerned to hear them sound so pessimistic about the future.
by Lynne Jeter |
Mid-Career Burnout in Physicians Prevalent, Yet Preventable
One day when Dr. Steve Gabbe was taking a break while attending a science conference, he wasn't terribly surprised to hear a half dozen colleagues sharing their frustrations about work, but he was deeply concerned to hear them sound so pessimistic about the future.
by Lynne Jeter |
DHC Cancer Patients Will Have Access to New Drugs
DCH Cancer Treatment Center patients will soon be among the first in the country to have access to new cancer drugs under a new program, in which patients can choose to participate in clinical trials, giving them access to experimental drugs before they are available on the open market.
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Source Medical Announces Partnership
Source Medical announced a partnership with Inventory Optimization Solutions (IOS) to provide the SourcePlus PurchaseConnection, an advanced eProcurement portal, and to become a distributor of IOS's supply chain management solutions.
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UAB Optometry Experts Provide Training
Wendy Marsh-Tootle, OD and Patti S. Fuhr, OD, professors at the UAB School of Optometry presented lectures to international researchers and eye care professionals at the Inaugural World Congress on Refractive Error and Service Development, which was held in Durban, South Africa in March.
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UAB Graduate Student Wins Scholarship Award
Muzna Mirza, MD, a graduate student in the health informatics program at UAB's School of Health Professions, has won the 2007 Healthlink Informatics Scholarship from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
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Dr. Shin Oh Named Distinguished Professor
Shin Oh, MD, professor of neurology and pathology and director of the Division of Neuromuscular Disease in the Department of Neurology at UAB has been designated a distinguished professor by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System.
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Briscoe Heads Children's Planned Giving
Children's Hospital has named Kathy Briscoe Director of Planned Giving. Planned giving is a process that allows donors to make a commitment now for a deferred gift through their will, so that after they are deceased, their gift will continue to support the efforts of Children's Hospital.
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Elson Named to National Institute Panel
Charles O. Elson III, MD, of UAB, has been appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health. He will serve on the Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Subcommittee.
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