Posted on November 18, 2009 by jdondoyle
By STEVE LOHR Published: October 6, 2009
The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals, whether choices are about diet [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by jdondoyle
Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made the main elements of the DynaMed clinical summary for Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by jdondoyle
Online services help patients get answers quickly, some say
Saturday, July 26, 2008 6:03 AM
By Suzanne Hoholik
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
We’ve all called our doctors’ offices and had to work through a maze of phone options to schedule appointments, refill prescriptions or [...]
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