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Kathy Fitzpatrick is looking for a new family doctor in Saskatchewan. It's the third time she's had to find a new physician after hers left the province or the profession. She said the search is much harder than it used to be, because as of this fall the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has stopped providing a list of family doctors taking on new patients. Fitzpatrick is on medication for Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. During a recent call for a prescription renewal, she learned her doctor is leaving the province in late December. "I would have expected to have been notified," Fitzpatrick said. She said she was told there was a sign up in the clinic with the information. "I said, 'well I haven't been in the clinic to see that sign.'" Other doctors at the clinic will look after her until the clinic can find a new doctor, but she wants a permane...

MADRID — Not only are strategies for managing obesity changing, but also the "absolute truths" and guidelines for obesity are being reassessed, especially with reference to how clinicians advise patients on managing the problem and how they involve patients in treatment. These ideas were presented in two sessions at the 63rd Conference of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición). The closing conference was titled, "The Future in the Treatment of Obesity: A Perspective for the 21st Century," and was led by Carel Le Roux, MBChB, PhD, director of the Metabolic Medicine Group of the University College Dublin in Ireland. "Many of the certainties that we currently know about obesity are going to change in the next few years, and within this framework, the main question that we need to answer is whether it is a disease," said Le Roux. "Most experts believe that it is, b...

PHOENIX -- An Arizona court has ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades. But the Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday declined to repeal the 1864 law, which carries a sentence of two to five years in prison for anyone who assists in an abortion and provides no exceptions for rape or incest. Still, the court said doctors can't be prosecuted for performing abortions in the first 15 weeks of pregnancy because other Arizona laws passed over the years allow them to perform the procedure, though non-doctors are still subject to be charged under the old law. "The statutes, read together, make clear that physicians are permitted to perform abortions as regulated" by other abortion laws, the appeals court wrote. The pre-statehood law, which allows abortions only if a patient's life is in jeopardy, had been blocked from being enforced shortly after the U.S. Sup...

London, Dec. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The population Reference Bureau estimates nearly 50 million injury cases in road accidents worldwide, each year. The post-surgical scarring is a commonplace, and a measurably high proportion of patients seek an effective treatment on scars. Global scar treatment market thus advances at a stable pace. A new upcoming study of Fairfield Market Research intends to provide detailed growth assessment and forecast of the global scar treatment market over the next few years. The report would examine the performance of scar treatment market during 2022 – 2029. Inflammatory, surgical, or accidental, scars are of the various types and a majority of them are of the atrophic type. Atrophic scars are typically subject to non-prescription treatment alternatives, and the primary corrective measures are topical treatments. While atrophic scarring, and scars of a skin disease remain the common factors generating demand for scar treatment, the primary findin...

This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here. Last week I asked, "What's been your experience with the health-care system and what lessons have you drawn?" Dennis kicks us off with a near-death experience: I was young and foolish. I drove a motorcycle into the side of a car in 1980. After four-plus operations, [losing] 80-plus pints of blood, the removal of my gall bladder and most of my liver, two and a half months in the hospital, lots of infections and complications, and several more months of care, I recovered. It was intense and amazing, and since my union-member parents' insurance paid for it, possible. I turned 23 in the hospital. I have never lost a scar contest. The American health-care system saved my life. But my experience shows that it is ...

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Tribune News Service New Delhi, December 26 The CBI has registered an FIR against officials of the National Medical Council (NMC) and 14 state medical councils for allegedly helping 73 unqualified foreign medical graduates to practice medicine in different parts of the country. As per rules, foreign medical graduates need to qualify an examination-cum-screening test to get provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission or the state councils to practice medicine in the country. Following an internal investigation, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MH&FW) filed a complaint with the CBI alleging 73 identified foreign medical graduates who did not pass the exam as per the National Board of Examination records got registration numbers from medical councils across states to practice medicine. The complaint is part of the CBI FIR, a copy of which is with The Tribune. "Such fraudulent ...

The plantar fascia is a thick and strong group of longitudinal and transverse bands of collagen-rich tissue, consisting of central, medial, and lateral fascicles. Biomechanically, the central fascicle assumes a special role in medial longitudinal foot arch preservation. However, there is scarce data on plantar fascia medial and lateral fascicles' anatomy and pathology in the literature. We report the case of a 27-year-old male professional soccer player who presented with sudden-onset, severe lateral right rearfoot pain that had started while doing linear sprinting practice. The athlete had no relevant medical history and no history of previous right foot injuries. The radiographic study of the right foot revealed no significant changes. MRI showed a high T2 signal partially interrupting the plantar fascia lateral fascicle low signal, consistent with a lateral fascicle rupture. The rehabilitation program was initiated and included pharmacological ...

Editor's Note This article is brought to you by Ochsner. Ochsner continues to expand cancer care services in Baton Rouge with multi-million-dollar facility enhancements, the addition of highly regarded physicians to its cancer care team and is providing more ways for patients to be active participants in their own health journeys. A $10 million expansion to Ochsner Cancer Center – Baton Rouge will be complete in 2023. This will allow Ochsner to treat more patients across more cancer specialties and continue to grow its already robust clinical cancer research program. Through its Precision Cancer Therapies Program, Ochsner offers patients access to early-phase clinical trials with its cutting-edge treatments and therapies. In addition, the cancer center inside Ochsner Medical Complex – The Grove now houses a high-risk breast cancer clinic led by Lindsey Fauveau, M.D., a fellowship-t...

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DEL RIO, Texas – A licensed primary care physician along with three members of his clinical staff and his office manager were sentenced Thursday for unlawful distribution of controlled substances and Medicaid fraud. According to court documents, Dr. Alfonso Luevano, 53, of Carrizo Springs prescribed large amounts of controlled substances, primarily Schedule II opioids, on a regular basis with little or no medical examination.  He also directed mid-level practitioners to provide patients with prescriptions using prescription pads that he had pre-signed.  According to data from the Texas prescription management program, Luevano and his mid-level practitioners issued at least 20,000 controlled substance prescriptions between March 2016 and March 2018.  Hydrocodone alone comprised at least 50 percent of the prescriptions.  The investigation also revealed several instances of Luevano prescribing patients a potentially lethal combination of an opioid, a be...