Athlete followed by healthcare professionals

Information for Healthcare Professionals

Has the medication received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval? If so, what are the indications and uses? Yes . On November 14, 2014, the FDA approved alemtuzumab for treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Because of its safety profile, alemtuzumab should generally be reserved for patients who have had an inadequate response to two or more drugs indicated for the ...

Presentation skills for healthcare professionals.

P in medical meetings and conferences is an important element of medical professionalism. It requires special skills and effort, and needs a competent speaker, and good preparation. However, it may reflect negatively on the speaker if he has not prepared very well, because he will not attract the audience and impress them. Quite often in medical meetings, we find ourselves losing interest and a...

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of fatigue experienced by people with IBD.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fatigue is one of the top complaints of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however this is often not addressed in clinical consultations. This study aimed to gain an understanding of healthcare practitioners' (HCPs) perception of IBD fatigue as experienced by people with IBD. METHODS Descriptive phenomenology was conducted with 20 HCPs who work with people with ...

Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation by healthcare professionals.

Reporting of Foodborne Illness by U.S. Consumers and Healthcare Professionals

During 2009-2010, a total of 1,527 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013). However, in a 2011 CDC report, Scallan et al. estimated about 48 million people contract a foodborne illness annually in the United States. Public health officials are concerned with this under-reporting; thus, the purpose of this study was to identify why...