November 29th 2020
FDA approves several drugs to treat rare conditions in both cancer and metabolic diseases.
Comprehensive Care Management: Your SWOT Team for High Cost Cases
June 1st 2004To his co-workers, Mark is an outgoing, healthy, 34-year-old young manwith a friendly personality (although they've noticed he does miss workoften). What they don't know is that Mark suffers from Type A hemophilia,chronic pain, addiction to painkillers and recently was diagnosed with HIV,most likely contracted from factor 8 transfusion he received as a teenager.
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What ever happened to care management?
December 1st 2003All too often, the fundamentals of a sport, industry or discipline are learned at the early stages but then forgotten as an individual advances in knowledge and sophistication. And that, according to Joe Anderson, is the problem that has caused so many healthcare headaches over the years.
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After attending the delivery of a baby in a community hospital in Louisville, Ky., Dr. Larry Cook paused for a moment in the hallway, still in his green hospital scrubs. The new baby's grandmother, a woman in her 50s, beaming with joy, approached Dr. Cook and threw her arms around him instinctively. Hugging him she said, "Dr. Cook, 21 years ago you attended the delivery of my daughter and provided her newborn care. And just now, you've attended the delivery of her child."
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