Medicine

Rehabilitation medicine to play bigger role

9 Feb 2012

SINGAPORE: Rehabilitation medicine will play a greater role in Singapore with the ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic conditions such as stroke, hip fracture, heart failure, and traumatic brain or spinal cord injury.

Strong Medicine, Bitter Pills | DISCOVER

9 Feb 2012

65,000: Average number of children under the age of 5 admitted to emergency rooms annually for accidental ingestion of medications, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics in September. Researchers drew on patient records of 453,559 children, collected by poison control centers in the United States between 2001 and 2008. Over that time, the number of er visits due to the ...

Isabelle C. Kopec, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P., Named Chair of Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Tele-ICU Committee

9 Feb 2012

At the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 41st Annual Congress this week, Isabelle C. Kopec, M.D., FACP, FCCP, vice president of medical affairs of Advanced ICU Care®, assu