For this installment, three AMA members took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about the potentially harmful effects of social media. They are: Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, a pediatrician in Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Three physicians took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about vitamins and nutritional supplements. They are: Pieter Cohen, MD, an internist in Somerville ...
Public Health Prevention & Wellness What doctors wish patients knew about iron deficiency One in three women under 50 is iron deficient, affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. Two physicians discuss iron deficiency and how to address it.
The discussion was moderated by William B. Jordan, MD, MPH, who is senior director of equity policy and transformation at the AMA Center for Health Equity. Panelists examined the quality of care older-adult physicians provide, how age-related biases affect older-adult physicians, and how ageism affects patients’ care experience.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care. For this installment, two AMA members shared what doctors wish patients knew about sodium consumption. They are:
WESA: Trans patients file discrimination complaint against UPMC over termination of gender-affirming care
Demonstrators staged a "die-in" outside of UPMC's downtown headquarters earlier this month to protest the health system's cuts to gender-affirming care for trans patients. A group of transgender ...
Trans patients file discrimination complaint against UPMC over termination of gender-affirming care
Yahoo: Life-changing concussion care at UPMC draws patients from around the world
WPXI: Protesters gather at UPMC headquarters to demand gender-affirming care be reinstated to all patients
Protesters gather at UPMC headquarters to demand gender-affirming care be reinstated to all patients
WESA: UPMC weighs in on federal case over the health records of its young transgender patients
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has filed a response to a federal subpoena seeking the medical records of the health system’s young transgender patients. The Public Interest Law Center (PILC) ...
UPMC weighs in on federal case over the health records of its young transgender patients
CBS News: UPMC creates treatment blueprint for patients with wounds and withdrawal symptoms from Xylazine-laced drugs
UPMC is one of the first health systems to write a blueprint for treating patients experiencing gruesome side effects from drugs laced with xylazine. Xylazine is not an opioid. It's an animal ...
UPMC creates treatment blueprint for patients with wounds and withdrawal symptoms from Xylazine-laced drugs
MSN: Life-changing concussion care at UPMC draws patients from around the world
WESA: Therapists, doctors urge UPMC to ‘fight back,’ reinstate gender-affirming care for trans youth
Therapists, doctors urge UPMC to ‘fight back,’ reinstate gender-affirming care for trans youth
Yahoo: Doctor charged with trying to have sex with child had ‘no contact with any patients,’ UPMC says
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former UPMC Children’s Hospital doctor charged with trying to have sex with a child never had contact with patients during his ...
Doctor charged with trying to have sex with child had ‘no contact with any patients,’ UPMC says
WPXI: Life-changing concussion care at UPMC draws patients from around the world
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education. Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials.
Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list. But realistically accomplishing this goal requires care teams to zero in on what really patients really want.
Patients with Meniere’s disease “will have episodes of vertigo, usually lasting half an hour to a couple of hours that can be very intense and incapacitating and unpredictable, but they almost always have a symptom of hearing loss or ringing in their ear either immediately before or during the onset of vertigo,” he said.
Yahoo: UPMC Altoona doctor awarded for commitment to education and patient care
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — A doctor with UPMC Altoona is being recognized for her outstanding work and dedication to the osteopathic ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A concussion can put your life on hold. But doctors in Pittsburgh say they’ve cracked the code, and it’s care that people from ...
Four transgender people who received gender-affirming care at UPMC are battling efforts by the federal government to force the hospital system to turn over their “intimate” personal health information ...
A video game developed by Pittsburgh-based UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers helped emergency physicians make more accurate trauma triage decisions for severely injured older adults than ...
PITTSBURGH — Health care professionals and transgender rights activists gathered in front of UPMC’s headquarters in Downtown Pittsburgh to call for change. Demonstrators want the health system to ...
A concussion can put your life on hold. But doctors in Pittsburgh say they’ve cracked the code, and it’s care that people from around the world will travel to get. “I can’t describe the mounds of ...
Kailey Andrew, Katherine Anderson and Jess Cox are UPMC behavioral health therapists. They, along with more than 100 physicians, nurses and specialists have signed an open letter urging their employer ...
ACCESSED AND HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF PROTECTED, ACCORDING TO UPMC. PATIENT INFORMATION SUCH AS NAME, AGE AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS MAY HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED, THEY SAY. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS WERE NOT, BUT ...