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Doctors use physical exams and CT scans to identify appendicitis, the infection and inflammation of the small, thin pouch attached to a segment of the large intestine in the lower right abdomen, but often, when the diagnosis is less than clear, they err on the side of caution, recommending surgery...
Now, new research by doctors at Children's Hospital Boston may help spur the development of a test for appendicitis that may someday prevent unnecessary surgeries, speed up the diagnostic process and even minimize undue medical costs. "It's very exciting," says Dr. Alex Kentsis, a pediatrician and co-author...
After the American Medical Student Association flunked Harvard Medical School last year for failing to submit its conflict of interest policies for review, school officials hastened to turn in the paperwork this year—and got a B. Earlier this week, AMSA released its third annual PharmFree Scorecard, which...
Brent Asplin, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, says health-care reform, if it's done comprehensively, can harness the financial value of EDs: "We're the last stop before the hospital bed - the last opportunity to connect people back to a primary-care provider...
Whether insured or uninsured people are crowding in, an overreliance on EDs means that less preventive medicine and less chronic-disease management is happening, which is part of the reason prevention is a central tenet of the current health-care-reform discussion. In other words, if the ED is the...