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Annals of Internal Medicine

Doctors Behaving Badly in Social Networking Sites: What Would Prompt State Boards to Investigate?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 03.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Doctors, Physicians, Social Networking Sites, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, Facebook, State Medical Boards, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barbara Ficarra, Nurses, Social Media Policies, Social Media Guidelines, Health Care Social Media, The Federation of State Medical Boards, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News
Barbara Ficarra

Investigations into online inappropriate physician conduct will be up to the state boards. Online behavior from physicians and any other licensed health care professional should mimic their professional life offline. It's imperative that professional ethics is maintained online and offline.

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Morehouse, Howard Rank Among Medical Schools With Strongest Social Mission

Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Schools Highest Social Mission, Social Mission Medical Schools, Lowest Social Mission Medical Schools, Annals of Internal Medicine, Medical Schools and Social Mission, Howard University, The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools, College News

A new report ranks medical schools based not on competitiveness but on their social mission. "The Social Mission of Medical Education," published to...

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Unlike Steroids, HGH Can Harm Without Helping

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Steroids, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Caros Beltran, University of Wisconsin, Annals of Internal Medicine, Anthony Galea, Hgh, Pete Hamill, Tiger Woods, Human-Growth-Hormone, New England Journal of Medicine, Jose Reyes, Stanford University, Carlos Delgado, Blood-Spinning, Steroids in Sports, Sports News
Robert E. Murphy

Many athletes are so determined to treat their bodies with substances that promise them competitive advantage, that they are easily duped by empty nostrums and medical charlatans.

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Is A 'Spoonful' Of Medicine Dangerous?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Annals of Internal Medicine, Barbara Ficarra, Dosing Spoon, Dosing Cup, Dosing Errors, Community Health & Safety, healthin30, Measuring Spoon, Dosing Syringe, Health, Healthy Living News
Barbara Ficarra

When you need to take liquid medicine, do you reach for the kitchen spoon? If you do, you're not alone but most likely you're not measuring the dosage accurately and it could be disastrous.

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Take Two Studies And Call Them In The Morning

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Annals of Internal Medicine, American Cancer Society, Cancer Screening, Breast Cancer, Breast Exams, Diagnostic Tests, Mammograms, Health Guidelines, Health and Human Services, Medicine, Health Care, Preventive Services Task Force, Health, Healthy Living News
Rick Horowitz

If you've been eating plenty of this and that because we kept proclaiming that this and that are good for you, you might want to scale back a bit.

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