Healthcare News
By Dr. Ted Tyberg March 3rd, 2015 A report by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) warns that some 1.1 billion (yes, billion) young adults in middle and high income countries are putting their hearing at risk by using personal audio devices unsafely and exposing themselves to damaging sound levels. This may be exacerbated
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By Dr. Kenneth Rothaus The National Surgical Quality Improvement Project, in cooperation with approximately 600 hospitals, collects and analyzes their individual data, compares it to other hospitals, and helps hospitals find and plug the gaps in their safety net. An article in Health Care, a section of the Wall Street Journal, reviews some of the
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By Dr. Kenneth Rothaus Many of the news media have reported on an effort by Senate Democrats to extend the deadline for signing up for health care which passed at midnight on Sunday February 15th. The reasons given include both those with some validity and those that appear, at least somewhat, political. The former include:
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I am a practicing plastic surgeon so it will probably not come as a surprise that many of the articles I discuss will come from the plastic surgery literature (as I am sure Dr. Tyberg’s articles will reflect his specialty of medical cardiology). There was a recent article in the November issue of the journal Plastic
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According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control: the leading causes of death in the United States for 2011 (the latest year that the data is available on their website) were in order as follows: 1- Heart disease 2- Cancer 3- Chronic Respiratory Diseases 4- Stroke 5- Accidents 6- Alzheimer’s 7- Diabetes 8- Influenza and
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