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Long Acting Beta Agonist Inhalers 'CAUSE' Asthma? The DMCB Explains and Reviews the Implications for Disease Management by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 20 Dec 2008 7:19pm be approved for treatment of asthma. Apparently they can cause asthma. Drugs that treat asthma can cause asthma? How can this be true? And what are the implications for disease management? The Disease Management Care Blog at your service! First of all, “beta agonists ” are a type of drug that works by activating “beta receptors.” Receptors Read on »

SBU Researcher and Colleagues Unravel Genetic Blueprint Of Bacteria Causing Lyme Disease by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Thu 21 Oct 2010 8:22pm of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The finding is crucial to advancing research on Lyme disease, the most frequent tick-borne infection in North America and Europe, and may lead... of Sciences. The study is reported in the early online edition of the Journal of Bacteriology. Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease. The first complete genome Read on »

Another Study Proves Disease Managment Works - Even Though the Researchers Didn't Call It "Disease Management" but "Collaborativ by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 10 Jan 2011 5:56pm Two tiresome canards about "disease management" are that 1) it fails to address the full spectrum of patient care needs by being limited to one condition at a time, and 2) it leaves the patients' physicians out of the loop. While that may have characterized some of the earliest disease management programs back in the 1990s, both issues were quickly Read on »

The Disease Management Care Blog Summarizes the Latest Disease Management Journal - Read All About It! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am Many readers of the Disease Management Care Blog have probably found the April issue of Disease Management, the official journal of the DMAA, the Care Continuing Alliance.... Callan CM: Health information technology for the disease management. Dr. Callan also provides a brief ‘Point Of View’ that extols the virtues of health information technology Read on »

The Bad and the Ugly of Disease Management ROI and How Al Lewis of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium Wants to Fix It by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 15 Apr 2009 11:48pm Al Lewis is a colleague of the Disease Management Care Blog. It’s always a treat running into a founder of the DMAA and the head of the Disease Management Purchasing...-as-usual disease management pre-post analyses being foisted on unsuspecting purchasers miserably fail to account for the persons with chronic illness that are missing in the baseline Read on »

The Disease Management Care Blog Interviews a Full-Risk Physician Group Medical Director: Does Disease Management Work? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am The Disease Management Care Blog had the opportunity to chat with the medical director of a >300 doc California-based physician group that, aside from some high cost... asked about that thingy called ‘disease management.’ This physician group has it and the medical director is convinced it works. They’ve hired the nurses that deploy remote Read on »

Kaiser's Electronic Messaging System and the Implications for Disease Management (and KP's own disease management programs) by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 3:54pm The Disease Management Care Blog has been slowly navigating through the latest issue of Health Affairs and wanted to draw readers' attention to the lead article.... If this occurred absent any change in clinic personnel then it would imply that practice efficiency increased. The implications for disease management (DM)? The DMCB still thinks Read on »

Disinfectants cause some bacteria to thrive. by Stephen Tvedten Patient Expert

Posted Tue 29 Dec 2009 12:00am Disinfectants cause some bacteria to thrive - LiveScience- msnbc.com To keep sickness at bay, many of us constantly wash hands and disinfect surfaces. But a new lab study... of these antibiotic-resistant bacteria is the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new study suggests disinfectants may be part Read on »

Alzheimer's Caregving: How Cranberry Juice Fights Bacteria that Cause Urinary Tract Infections (Part Three) by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Thu 26 Aug 2010 5:43am and furious conversation among Alzheimer's caregivers. New evidence on how cranberry juice fights bacteria that cause urinary tract infections Scientists today reported new... that urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for about 8 million medical visits each year, at a total cost of more than $1.6 billion. UTIs involve bacterial infections of the urinary Read on »

Intestinal Bacteria May Cause Weight Gain by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:03am some people have types of bacteria that cause them to absorb more calories from their food. You have two absorption systems in your body. You absorb most of your food as it passes through your small intestines. Food that is not absorbed in the small intestine goes to your colon. The colon contains a huge colony of bacteria that work to ferment Read on »