By John Leyne BBC News, Amman For the people of Iraq, it may be the ultimate nightmare. The ordeal continues for victims of Iraq’s violence when they are taken to hospital. Most of the best medical staff have left after being targeted by insurgents. Many have fled the country just in the last few months. […]

Novel Approach to Physician Education Makes Doctors More Likely to Address Domestic Violence in Their Patients http://www.prnewswire.com Physicians are more likely to recognize, validate, assess and respond to suspected domestic (intimate partner) violence in their patients after participating in an Internet course on the subject, according to new study results reported this week at the […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com This April, entrepreneur, neurosurgeon Jeffery Segal, MD, FACS, and founder of Medical Justice Services, celebrates five years of relentlessly and successfully defending physicians against frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits – a defense that often includes taking the first punch. “Physicians are healers, and not fighters,” said Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon. Waiting it out and hoping […]

By DIANE COCHRAN Of The Gazette Staff http://www.billingsgazette.net Searching for a snowman in a blizzard. Spotting a star on a cloudy night. That’s how radiologists describe looking for cancer on a mammogram. It’s white on white – white tumors on white breast tissue – and it can be very difficult to see, even for the […]

UCF’s Dr. Deborah German and others endorse legislation to increase such positions. Harry Wessel | Sentinel Staff Writer http://www.orlandosentinel.com When the University of Central Florida won approval last year to build a medical school, the landmark event was touted as a key step in alleviating both the region’s and the state’s growing shortage of physicians. […]

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By Dr. Michael Rath The Free Press http://www.mankatofreepress.com Mankato physician Michael Rath is back in Iraq on his second tour of duty, training and assisting medical personnel near Baghdad. He is supplying The Free Press with e-mail photos and short accounts of daily life for military members there.

http://allergy-articles.blogspot.com/ As the prevalence of allergic rhinitis appears to be rising, there are increasing concerns about its impact on health, sleep, work and school performance, as well as unmet patient needs regarding its treatment according to experts presenting new data at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). “There […]

By Susan Haigh, Associated Press Writer -When Brittmarie Harwe woke up with a sore neck and shoulder in 1993, she sought help from a chiropractor recommended by a friend. But at her second visit, something went terribly wrong. “When he did the first (adjustment), I felt it, like a rushing noise in my head, dizzy,” […]