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Access to Water, Access to Health
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-global-medicine/access-to-water-access-to-health/3935/Are we headed towards a water crisis? Directory of the Emory Center for Global Safe Water and professor of medicine and public health at Emory University joins host Dr. Maurice Pickard to discuss the global implications of not having clean water. He discusses the linkages between potable water, sanSurgical Management of Obesity in Adolescents
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-childrens-health/surgical-management-of-obesity-in-adolescents/3923/When does surgery become the best option for treating obese adolescents? Dr. Christine Ren, founder and director of the New York University (NYU) Program for Surgical Weight Loss and assistant professor of surgery at NYU School of Medicine, addresses this question and identifies target patients forEvaluating Chronic Cough in Children
https://reachmd.com/programs/hot-topics-in-allergy/evaluating-chronic-cough-in-children/3914/Cough is one of the most common symptoms but can develop as a symptom of various disorders, from asthma to bacterial infection to gastroesophogeal reflux disorder. How important is the character of a cough in determining the cause in children particularly? Host Dr. Todd Mahr explores cough guidelineStark Law Updates
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/stark-law-updates/3898/On October 30, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2009 Physician Fee Schedule, which includes revisions to the Stark regulations that tighten the prohibition on physician referrals and the anti-markup rules for diagnostic testing. Attorney Neal Goldstein explaDiagnosing Self-Neglect in the Elderly
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-geriatric-medicine-and-aging/diagnosing-self-neglect-in-the-elderly/3816/How is self-neglect defined and how prevalent is it in the elderly population? Dr. Lisa Gibbs, professor in the department of family medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, defines self-neglect and explains why it is a geriatric syndrome. She describes how to conduct a cMonitoring Control in Asthma: Do Biomarkers Play a Role, and How Can Asthma Management Plans Help?
https://reachmd.com/programs/hot-topics-in-allergy/monitoring-control-in-asthma-do-biomarkers-play-a-role-and-how-can-asthma-management-plans-help/3789/The role that biomarkers can play in asthma control by effectively measuring lung inflammation is a topic that has begun to get more attention lately in medical journals. Although use of most biomarkers is not clinically pragmatic for physicians yet, guest Dr. Stanley Fineman, clinical associate proBringing Spirituality Into the Hospital
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/bringing-spirituality-into-the-hospital/3777/Medicine and spirituality have always been linked, we have struggled as a profession with how to introduce spirituality and religion into the general hospital setting. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt discusses such a program with Dr. Mark Galanter, professor of psychiatry at New York University School of MedCentral Prescription Processing: A New Trend in Pharmacy?
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-pharmacy/central-prescription-processing-a-new-trend-in-pharmacy/3762/Central prescription and order verification, at its core, is a concept whereby the various aspects of pharmacy practice can be divided up into a series of assignments to be completed by separate pharmacy workers. It allows data entry for a patient to occur in one location, just as that patient's druMaking Vaccine Financing and Delivery Work for Everyone
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/making-vaccine-financing-and-delivery-work-for-everyone/3739/The medical community provides a vital public health service when we vaccinate our patients. However, this practice is often a money-losing proposition for us, as evidenced by the many primary care physicians who are discontinuing immunizations in their practice. What can physicians, vaccine manufacAbstinence-Only Sex Education: Failing Teens?
https://reachmd.com/programs/advances-in-womens-health/abstinence-only-sex-education-failing-teens/3728/For the past 25 years, the U.S. government has funded abstinence-only sex education in public schools. Still, 47 percent of high school students report having had sexual intercourse and 70 percent are sexually active by age 19. Lorie Chaiten, director of the Reproductive Rights Project for the Rog