Medical Blog August Archive

are insurance companies about to be putting the squeeze on psychiatrists

08/31/09 17:31

Mandates of new mental health coverage are going to be in effect by the year twenty ten. These mandates will now be influencing corporations, as well as insurance companies, to adopt new protocols that could negatively affect psychiatrists.

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Tags: mental health coverage • american psychiatric association • addiction • parity law •
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Hormone replacement therapy

The pharmaceutical industry has been blamed for many things. It just makes too much money on drugs to leave things alone. Wyeth is being accused of hiring "ghostwriters" to create documents in justification of hormone therapy for women that afterwards proved to have severe side effects.

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Lyme disease

Lyme disease officially affects around 20,000 americans every year, but, due to the imperfect diagnostic methods in use, some believe that the actual number may be as much as 10 or 12 times higher.

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just as much as we aren't machines, so aren't doctors

Medical libraries are extremely important in hospitals simply because doctors are not robots. They would need to have information about their patients documented and always readily accessible.

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Health care that works?

Government health care plans are being compared to the British health care policies being currently applied. The main concern is that health care is applied on a scale that determines what can be paid and not.

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Building and examining a synthetic brain may help to achieve unthinkable goals... or bring about disaster

Within ten years from now, we may witness the worlds first synthetic brain. An amazing, but scary thought. Just what are these people planning on doing with a synthetic brain now might I ask?

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World Medical Health Tourism Conference 2009 at Phuket, Thailand

Medical Tourism is a big hit nowadays. Phuket Thailand will be hosting the World Medical Health Tourism Conference 2009 on September 16-18, 2009 that will be attended by 1200 health care industry exhibitors and leaders from around the world.

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