The American Medical Association publishes free online documents (PDF) called the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement that provide specific overviews of many common physical and mental health conditions, such as hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and adult diabetes. These “Clinical Performance Measures” include a nice summary of important information relevant to the specific disease, […]
“Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update” provides healthcare professionals a state of the art, evidenced based presentation of current nicotine/tobacco treatment options for their patients. This excellent free ebook (pdf) spans several hundred pages. (more…)
Kaiser Permanente is a progressive not-for-profit health plan provider and one of the initial advocates of behavioral health integration into overall primary medical care. Newly published research* suggests that people who lose weight immediately following Type 2 Diabetes, “insulin resistance,” diagnosis realize improved health outcomes, such as reaching blood pressure and blood sugar goals. Another […]
A national poll conducted by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital’s National Poll on Children’s Health suggests that obesity problems are not limited to adults. In fact, childhood obesity came in at #1 in their poll, bumping smoking and drug abuse from the top spots a year ago. (more…)
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