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...evidence-based medicine, using electronic records for in-house effectiveness research, constantly monitoring its doctors on everything from infection rates to operating times to patient outcomes, minimizing the art of medicine and maximizing the science. "We try to drive out variation wherever we can," says Charles (Mike) Harper, a neurologist who oversees Mayo's clinical practice in Rochester. "Practicing medicine is not the same as building Toyotas, but you can still standardize. Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse to ignore data." Mayo has teams working on evidence-based protocols to reduce the use of intensive care, lower valve-replacement costs...
...potential connection between REM sleep disorder and these diseases for some time, but this is the largest and longest study to estimate the true risk of getting Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases if someone has the sleep disorder," says Dr. Ron Postuma, the study's author and a neurologist at Montreal General Hospital. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...explained Groszyk. “It became a major issue. I had to leave school for a semester. It affected my schoolwork and other aspects of my life.” Unable to receive the necessary treatment at Harvard for such an injury, Groszyk was sent to a neurologist who specialized in sports-related head injuries. The physician explained to Groszyk the severity of the concussion and the implications and risk of a potential future injury. He told the point guard that his basketball career was over. “He said that if I were at a different school...
...holds a cane and is addicted to Vicodin, he still isn’t as old or insane as he would need to be to have completed so many specialty courses in medical school. A ripe, obnoxiously saucy bachelor at middle age, House is somehow a cardiologist, epidemiologist, radiologist, neurologist, orthopedic surgeon, dermatologist, endocrinologist, pulmonologist, gynecologist, and psychiatrist, in addition to being versed in a few other specialties, sprinkled in for good measure. There is no other way to put it; the show is completely unrealistic. Noah Wyle may be a pretty boy, but after years of watching television...
...patients exposed to bright lights consistently scored one point higher on cognition tests during the five-year study than those residing under normal light conditions. "The results are interesting, and worth paying attention to," says Dr. Marilyn Albert, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Light, the study's authors suspect, works on the body's circadian clock, which is regulated by a cluster of cells in the brain's hypothalamus. Those cells release agents that, along with the hormone melatonin, help to regulate the body's sleep-wake cycle and are responsible for alerting the brain when...