medical care

More Americans Seek Medical Care and Most Walk Away with a Presc...

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 14:00

ATLANTA -- On average, each American seeks medical care at a doctor's office, a clinic, or a hospital emergency department about four times a year, according to data released by the CDC.


 

HIV Death Gap Closing

WebMD Health  Tue, 07/01/2008 - 00:00

Death from AIDS is the exception, not the rule, with early detection of HIV and state-of-the-art medical care, a JAMA study shows.


 

More aggressive health care isn't always better, study says

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Thu, 05/29/2008 - 17:41

Too much medical care could be harmful to your health, according to a study that shows some hospitals give patients more aggressive care -- meaning more tests, longer hospital stays and more procedures and higher costs.


 

Transitioning patients with pediatric disease to adulthood

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 04/27/2008 - 23:00

(Indiana University) Twenty to 30 years ago it was not unusual for children with serious congenital or developmental conditions to die before reaching adulthood.

Thanks to research driven medical care, today thousands of these children transition to adulthood every year.

With adulthood comes new challenges both to themselves and to their caregivers.


 

Riley Hospital for Children & Capital Institute of Pediatrics be...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 04/16/2008 - 23:00

As international sister hospitals, Indianapolis' Riley Hospital for Children and Beijing's Capital Institute of Pediatrics will take a decade of experience with exchange of faculty members to new levels, benefiting medical care for children in both nations.