What Is an Ototoxic Drug? According to Neil Bauman, Ph.D., “Ototoxic drugs are those medications that can cause ototoxic (ear damaging) side effects to your ears. Such drugs can cause hearing loss, hyperacusis, tinnitus, and other...
Summary: According to a USA Today review of government records and medical databases, tens of thousands of patients undergo unnecessary surgery each and every year• Among the most commonly performed unnecessary surgeries are cardiac angioplasties,...
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, Sep 09, 2019. Louis Rocco has lived with diabetes for decades but, until he met with a registered dietitian in August, he didn’t know eating too much bread was dangerous… Read More
By Megan Thielking, STAT News, Aug 29, 2019. A sweeping new analysis adds to the evidence that many women who take hormone therapy during menopause are more likely to develop breast cancer — and remain at… Read More
By Bram Sable-Smith, NPR Shots, Sep 19, 2019. In the first three months after getting his Dexcom continuous glucose monitor, Ric Peralta managed to reduce his average blood sugar level by three percentage points. “It took… Read More
Photo Credit Rob Latour / Rob Latour/Invision/AP By DAVID JACKSON and MARIO ARIZA, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SEP 13, 2019. Former Illinois and Florida nursing home mogul Philip Esformes wept and pleaded for mercy Thursday before being sentenced to 20 years in… Read More
As Americans sink under medical expenses, debt collectors go to great—and sometimes strange—lengths to collect. By OLGA KHAZAN, for The Atlantic. AUG 28, 2019. Updated at 9:10 a.m. ET on August 29, 2019. On March 8, 2011,… Read More
Johns Hopkins researchers analyzing Medicare data say they’ve detected physicians performing what look like unnecessary vascular procedures. Source The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2019 Now that unnecessary heart stent procedures happen significantly less often, doctors… Read More
Photo Credit Jeenah Moon for The New York Times. Drug-resistant germs, including Candida auris, prey on severely ill patients in skilled nursing facilities, a problem sometimes amplified by poor care and low staffing. By Matt Richtel and… Read More
Price vs. Quality and Value Are Considerations. Do you need to hire a private patient advocate to help with your healthcare? When you are sick or debilitated, it’s impossible to figure out how to get...