Patricia Kringas emphasizes the necessity of shifting the dialogue for adolescents to a more aggressive and proactive approach but also lets us know that education still plays an extremely important role. Here’s the link to the free educational materials she mentions from the TODAY study (available in both English and …

Hypertension can be an expensive disease and how poor a job we do managing it in older patients can increase managed care costs. This week’s Homerun Slides series, Hypertension in the Medicare Population, Part 1 of 2, provides you with the information to talk to your colleagues about the future of …

Nikolaos Tentolouris, Nikolaos Katsilambros         Case study 5.1 A 76-year-old female patient was admitted to the orthopedic unit for right hip replacement.

  In this week’s Homerun Slides set, we take a look at the challenges posed by an increasingly elderly population to the American Medicane healthcare system….