As phones turned into cameras, HIPAA created national standards to protect a patient’s sensitive health information, including their image, from being disclosed without consent. We can capture anything easily…but are we allowed...
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It takes a special person to care for people during their most vulnerable states, to keep intimate...
Read MoreAccording to a clinical report published in Pediatrics, there are currently multiple biologics available to treat moderate-to-severe persistent asthma in children and adults. The anti-immunoglobulin (IgE) agent omalizumab is...
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Although only in its beginning stages, the global healthcare gamification market is anticipated to...
Read MoreI ’ve stood in front of conferences before and made my case: Our healthcare system is per- fect. “A perfect system? Ours?” I’ll hear people murmuring, “He’s a little bit crazy.” For decades, critics of the US healthcare system...
Read MoreWith the use of video on the rise in court cases, attor- neys are also more sophisticated about tapping into its influence. But the legal standards regarding rules of evidence about a video’s credibility and authenticity are...
Read MoreMetformin use, independent of glycemic con- trol and obesity, was associated with lower hazard of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, and thus, may benefit patients with asthma and glycemic...
Read MoreBlack and White patients with moderate-to- severe asthma experience similar improvements in exacerbations, forced expiratory volume (FEV1), and Asthma Quality of Life Question- naire (AQLQ) measures with omalizumab, according to...
Read MoreThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced 19 recommendations for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of asthma in six key area, including four new recommendations targeting allergic asthma. The new...
Read MoreChildren with a family history of asthma have more than two-fold higher rates of asthma through age 4, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers used data from the Environmental Influences on Child Health...
Read MoreThere was a substantial decrease in asthma ex- acerbations among Black and Hispanic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice....
Read MoreAsthma affects approximately 1 in 10 children and the prevalence of asthma has dramatically increased within a generation, strongly implicating lifestyle and/or environmental causes, explain the authors of a recent study. Black...
Read MorePatients with T2D and asthma who take GLP-1 receptor agonists to control their blood sugar also experience improvements in their asthma symptoms, according to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical...
Read MoreCurrent electronic cigarette use is associated with significantly increased odds of having asthma, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 International Conference. Investigators used data from the...
Read MoreAfter George Floyd’s death from a police officer kneeling on his neck, I began to reflect on how I can guide all my patients to be anti-racist. I decided to approach the topic in the same breath as counseling about safety, which...
Read MoreDuring a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
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When managing patients with asthma, a major goal is to reduce hospital visits resulting from the...
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