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Category: Patient Care & Quality

Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

Helping Parents with Straight Talk on Drugs

Physicians and parents alike frequently struggle with how to address substance abuse with their teen patients or their own children.  As a result, too much … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

How Can Physicians Better Detect and Treat Those at Risk for Suicide?

Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming more lives than traffic accidents and more than twice as many as … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

Suicide Prevention and Awareness Resources Available in Pennsylvania

With the tragic news of the death of Robin Williams from an apparent suicide, the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society (PaPS) … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

Pennsylvania Physicians Provide Summer Health Care Tips

Now that summer is here, Pennsylvania physicians want to ensure that everyone has a safe and healthy summer. There are a few easy things children … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

FDA Expands Approved Use of Rapid Flu Test to Include Physician Offices

A rapid molecular flu test that provides results in as little as 15 minutes using a nasal swab and can be performed in front of … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

Pediatric Patients Safer with Addition of SCID to Newborn Screening

If not screened and diagnosed, babies with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as “Bubble Boy Disease,” do not typically survive past their first birthday. … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

CDC Issues Alert on Ciprofloxacin- and Azithromycin-Nonsusceptible Shigellosis in the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to receive new reports of infections with Shigella strains that are not susceptible to ciprofloxacin and/or … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022
Health Issues, Patient Care & Quality

Pennsylvania Sees Increase of Shigellosis in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

On April 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) issued an alert to physicians in southwestern and northwestern Pennsylvania, saying that the Allegheny County Health … Read More ›

Posted on 08.05.202208.05.2022

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