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Botulinum toxin injections: Cosmetic & Therapeutic treatment options
Botulinum toxin have a variety of medical uses, including smoothing out frown lines and treating pain. Use these resources to stay up-to-date on the latest medical advances involving neurotoxins. |
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Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Help your patients to effectively manage pregnancy-related nausea, vomiting, and morning sickness. |
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Treatments for CRVO and wet AMD
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, trials, and studies on central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) and wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) treatments. |
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Prenatal Vitamins: Nutrition Guidelines
Prenatal vitamins frequently contain more folic acid and iron than typical adult vitamins. Learn more about prenatal nutrition guidelines. |
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Compromised and Fragile Skin Therapies
Learn about diagnosis and treatment of painful skin disorders like melanoma, psoriasis and actinic keratosis. |
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Diabetes Care and Management
Diagnosis and treatment are becoming increasingly important as the number of diabetes patients grows, especially as it is estimated that about half of these go undiagnosed. |
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Fracture Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Guide to fracture risk and bone health throughout a women’s life cycle. Learn more about risk factors, screening, and tools for effective treatment. |
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Eczema: Therapies for All Ages
Eczema therapy can come in many forms from topical creams to ultraviolet light. Find out more about novel therapeutic strategies to manage eczema and other vexing skin conditions. |
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Toddler Fever / Pain Management
Gauging and managing toddler pain levels, or bringing relief from fever can be a dubious undertaking. Learn more about causes, techniques, and tools for effective treatment. |
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Oral Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation
Find risk stratifying tools, articles on emerging oral anticoagulant therapies, and CME to assist you in meeting the significant healthcare burden of nonvalvular AF. |
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Melanoma: Advances in Diagnosis & Therapy
See our dermatology diagnosis tool, articles on advances in diagnosis and therapies, and CME to assist you in meeting the significant healthcare burden of melanoma. |
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Accelerating ROI on your EHR purchase
Electronic health records hold the potential to improve care coordination, but EHR implementation can also be a slow and painful process. Learn about how to successfully plan an EHR implementation. |
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Lipid-Lowering Potential in the Immunocompromised
The FDA has warned about risks associated with interaction between protease inhibitors and cholesterol-reducing statin drugs. Learn about lipid-lowering treatments for patients with immunodeficiencies. |
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Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Seven years ago, only one drug was approved to treat CRPC. Now there are multiple ways of taking care of these patients. This is clearly going to extend survival overall and also quality of life. |
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Infertility / Assisted Reproductive Technology
More than 10% of women aged 15-44 are impaired in their ability to have children, according to the CDC. Learn about assisted reproductive technology treatment options for these patients. |
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Long-Acting Contraception
The pill often isn’t the best choice for those seeking long-acting contraception. Learn about how health providers can engage patients in conversations about their long-term contraceptive and fertility decisions. |
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Surgery as Early Intervention in Morbid Obesity
Bariatric surgery has been shown to be an effective means of reducing body mass index for morbidly obese patients. Read about how this type of early intervention can be part of a holistic weight-loss strategy for the obese. |
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Ophthalmic Tech's Community of Practice
iTech provides educational presentations for ophthalmic and optometric technicians, offering new learning skills, clinical tips, and instructional case studies that will help technicians work effectively with their doctors to enhance the practice. |
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The Obesity Epidemic
More than 78 million U.S. adults and 12 million children and adolescents are obese, and those numbers are growing every day. Here are some resources to help you adapt your practice to confront this epidemic. |
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Circulatory Disorders
Staying up-to-date with the latest treatments and studies on circulatory disorders is important to protecting your patients. Here are some resources that can help you improve your knowledge of the area. |
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Immunization
Staying up-to-date with the latest vaccination and immunization therapies is important to protecting patients from diseases. Here are some resources that can help you improve your knowledge and treatments. |
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Pain Management
Staying up-to-date with the latest pain management medications and therapies is important to treating patients with any kind of pain. Here are some resources that can help you improve your knowledge and treatments. |
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Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH)
The Patient-Centered Medical Home, which emphasizes information technology and care coordination, may be the key to the primary care practice of the future. This page will keep physicians informed on the latest developments with this new medical practice model. |
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Electronic Health Records Best Practices
Medical Economics has paired electronic health record system vendors with primary care practices that will test and use the systems for 2 years. These physician-pioneers have agreed to detail their experiences, which you will find useful in your own practice. |
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
Accountable Care Organizations are one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act. Content on this page explores physicians’ role in this new care-delivery model. |
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