MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'advertisements'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:08:18 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992757&cid=t_99978_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F01%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-july-1-2011%2F Once I got to college, I began to love school. The feeling of working hard and then the instant gratification from all that hard work was awesome! One professor told me I’d be a professional student forever. Of course in the real world, you can work as hard as you want and still feel like you haven’t quite made it. And it’s not just your career, but that gnawing, frustrating feeling could also apply to friendships and romantic relationships too. I realized that the formulas that seem to work in school, working hard = A’s, just didn’t have a place in real life. Sometimes you could drive yourself crazy trying to force pieces of a puzzle that just didn’t go together. In the whole process of going to school and finally getting out of it, I realized it was�... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992757 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:10:08 +0100 4992757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4794897&cid=t_99978_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F06%2Fblurring-sponsorship-advertising-disclosures%2F Many companies sponsor things, and in the world of mental health and psychiatry, those companies tend to be pharmaceutical. Sponsorships help promote a company’s brand (and, indirectly, the products they sell). Since I believe — like most mental health professionals — that most people benefit from a combination of both medications and psychotherapy in the treatment of serious mental disorders, I see the value of many pharmaceutical companies’ products. However, as we putter along in this age of the Internet, I’ve seen a disturbing trend toward blurring the line between editorial content and advertising. And now I see, thanks to a blog entry this week by Dr. Danny Carlat, that this trend is being promulgated by one of the very organizations responsible for over... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4794897 Fri, 06 May 2011 14:30:00 +0100 4794897 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4549936&cid=t_99978_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F_1BseNHP2ds%2F Last spring, the FDA began a new effort to encourage doctors to report ‘bad’ advertisements and promotional campaigns for prescription drugs and dubbed it the ‘Bad Ad‘ program. The goal is to make it easy for docs and other healthcare providers to report perceived problems to the agency, which describes the program as educational outreach. One former FDA official lauded the move. “On balance, the FDA probably feels there’s a lot of violative behavior they simply can not monitor with limited resources,” Arnold Friede, a former FDA associate chief counsel and a former senior corporate counsel at Pfizer, told us at the time. “…if the objective is compliance and not enforcement, then this is an additional incentive for a company to closely moni... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4549936 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:26:15 +0100 4549936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4183342&cid=t_99978_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2F19%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-november-19-2010%2F Every moment, we have an opportunity for self-growth. In fact, I was having one of those just yesterday. It was about five in the evening and I was stuck in traffic. As cars attempted to race past me, getting just a mere two cars ahead, I started to think about the frustration and impatience we all seemed to be feeling in the moment. Would I choose to give into the overwhelming negativity all around me? Or would I drown out the sounds of car engines and frustration with the radio and the TV I could see in the van directly in front of me? I decided to use this unpleasant situation for my benefit by fully being in the moment. I saw the dark clouds looming overhead, the lights from cars shining through it and the feeling of impatience that was slowly taking over me. It was an hour of sitting ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4183342 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:52:33 +0100 4183342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4031197&cid=t_99978_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2F1010s-controversial-exploding-people-video-what-do-you-think%2F We’re just as confused by 10:10′s “No Pressure” PSA as everyone else is. If you are so-so on cutting your carbon footprint, your respective teacher, coach, or employer will kill you? Even if you’re a child? Probably not the best way to help the cause. Are we missing something here? Watch and let us know. via Ecorazzi Post from: BlissTree 10:10's Controversial 'Exploding People' Video: What Do You Think? (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4031197 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:12:45 +0100 4031197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3780581&cid=t_99978_165_f&fid=37959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthskills.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F23%2Ffriday-funnies-33%2F Here in New Zealand it is most definitely Friday in mid-winter.  As regular readers will know, I’m not one given to recommend medications – but in deepest, darkest winter there comes a time whenI think it’s wise to consider effective treatments for our winter blues. …This one works for kids too! And I’m prescribing this one for my daughter, because she’s too smart to put up with dumb boys.  And I’m too young to be a grandma. Have a great weekend! Filed under: health, Humour Tagged: Friday funnies, funny, humor, Humour, joke, laugh, old advertisements (Source: HealthSkills Weblog) HealthSkills Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3780581 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:28:00 +0100 3780581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3644766&cid=t_99978_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnewsflash-tv-commercial-food-is-bad-for-you%2F2010.06.08 We’ve been slacking in the “Medical news of the obvious” department lately. Seems like research has been either actually newsworthy or so obvious that you could spot it yourselves (for example, the continuing investigations of whether smoking and being lazy are bad for you). But we couldn’t let this one slide by: “A new study that analyzes what would happen if a person were to eat 2,000 calories of foods that are advertised on the tube,” as HealthDay describes. As even the average Saturday morning cartoon viewer could have predicted, the food in commercials turns out to be bad for you. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at ACP Hospitalist* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3644766 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0100 3644766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3033591&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D2467 We have listed many reasons hear why you should never trust Boots.  Here are the previous ones. Can you trust Boots? Don’t Trust Boots Boots reaches new level of dishonesty with CoQ10 promotion This post is about a "functional food".  That is about something a bit more serious than homeopathy, though I’ll return to that standing joke in the follow-up, because of Boots’ latest shocking admission.. Alternative medicine advocates love to blame Big Pharma for every criticism of magic medicine.  In contrast, people like me, Ben Goldacre and a host of others have often pointed out that the differences seem to get ever smaller between the huge Alternative industry (about $60 billion per year), and the even huger regular pharmaceutical industry (around $6... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3033591 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:41:39 +0100 3033591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2205541&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D1170 It is almost six months now since I posted Quackery creeps into good universities too -but through Human Resources. One example given there was the University of Leicester. This is an excellent university.  It does first class research and it was the alma mater of the incomparable David Attenborough who [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2205541 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:19:10 +0100 2205541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2135025&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D920 Jump to follow-up It’s only a matter of weeks since a lot of young scientists produced a rather fine pamphlet pointing out that the “detox” industry is simply fraud.  They concluded “There is little or no proof that these products work, except to part people from their cash.” With impeccable timing, Duchy Originals has just launched a “detox” [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2135025 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:15:19 +0100 2135025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2081469&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D766 Sense about Science have just produced a rather good pamphlet that exposes, yet again. the meaningless marketing slogan “detox”.  You can download the pamphlet from their web site. The pamphlet goes through the claims of eleven products.  Needless to say, the claims are either meaningless, or simply untrue. Garnier Clean Detox Anti-Dullness Foaming Gel “Detoxifies by cleansing the [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2081469 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:55:35 +0100 2081469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1997509&cid=t_99978_165_f&fid=37959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthskills.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F28%2Ffriday-flippant-follies-funnies%2F It must be Friday, I have alliterations tripping off my tongue! Today’s line-up of divertisements include several photographs ‘donated’ via email from a work colleague who felt we really didn’t appreciate our jobs nearly enough… Thanks M, I believe I do agree that my work probably beats some of these… btw I’d love to credit these images - but I’m not entirely sure of their origin. The only way these images are even vaguely connected with health is - they’d do damage to yours if you had to do them!! Now if you’re like me, advertisements of yesteryear hold a certain fascination. I especially love the ads for beauty products and health products - some things don’t seem to change, and one of those is the use of celebrity endo... HealthSkills Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1997509 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:30:11 +0100 1997509 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1837786&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D257 Jump to follow-up Alfred Joseph Clark FRS held the established chair of Pharmacology at UCL from 1919 to 1926, when he left for Edinburgh.  As well as his classic scientific works, like The Mode of Action of Drugs on Cells (1933) he also felt strongly about the fraud perpetrated on the public by patent medicine salesmen.  [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1837786 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:12:11 +0100 1837786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1652774&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D240 This, I fear, is pure plagiarism, Robert Shrimsley’s piece in today’s Financial Times was so funny that it just begged to be quoted. Here it is. Surely this is a call to action. The news that Radovan Karadzic has been hiding out as some kind of homeopath has confirmed all prejudices about alternative medicine. [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1652774 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:58 +0100 1652774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494744&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D233 We have often had cause to criticise Boots Alliance, the biggest retail pharmacist in the UK, because of its deeply unethical approach to junk medicine. Click here to read the shameful litany. The problem of Boots was raised recently also by Edzard Ernst at the Hay [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1494744 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:35:46 +0100 1494744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1480653&cid=t_99978_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F05%2F30%2Fhealthbolt-historic-vintage-drug-ads%2F If you think drugs are scary now, take a look at what was on offer in the 1800’s and 1900’s… Source: Dr. Bonkers presents The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show Tags: curative medicine, drug advertisements, Drugs, Healthbolt, history of medicine, Medicine, medicine makers, medicine shows, vintage drugsShare This (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1480653 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:10:54 +0100 1480653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1446635&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D231 The extent to which irrationality has become established in US Medicine is truly alarming I wrote about Quakademics in the USA and Canada on my last trip to the USA, and on my May trip I visited Yale, where I decided to try a full [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1446635 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:15:37 +0100 1446635 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1329315&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D224 In a wonderful demonstration of common sense, the BBC has removed all the alternative medicine pages from BBC Health web site. I expect that it was helped in making that decision by the many complaints it had received about statements on these pages that were simply not true, The existence of these pages [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1329315 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:36:12 +0100 1329315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1300847&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D223 Boots the Chemists have proved themselves dishonest before, over their promotion of homeopathy and of B Vitamins “for vitality” In a press release dated 12 March 2008, they have hit a new low in ethical standards Boots help boost the nation’s energy levels in just one week “Health and beauty expert Boots has launched an exclusive energising vitamin [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1300847 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:01:20 +0100 1300847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1288700&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D221 We are all interested in the relationship between our health and what we eat. What a pity that so little is known about it. The problem, of course, is that it almost impossible to do randomised experiments, and quite impossible in most cases to make the experiments blind. Without randomisation there is no [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1288700 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:38:24 +0100 1288700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238293&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D219 This is the third post based on a recent trip to North America (here are the first and second) One aspect of the endarkenment, the Wal-Mart model of a university, is very much the same in the US as in the UK. At one US university, an excellent scientist offered the theory that an alien spacecraft [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238293 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:36:35 +0100 1238293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1218443&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.cbc.ca%2Fmp3%2Fsundayedition_20080204_4624.mp3 Thursday 24 Jan. The original reason for going to North America was an invitation from the Toronto Secular Alliance and Center for Inquiry. The talk for them was given a lot of publicity, for example here and here and from the totally admirable Orac. Toronto seems to be no worse than anywhere else when it [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1218443 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:07:16 +0100 1218443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1220900&cid=t_99978_97_f&fid=36415&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D218 A great deal has been written about media ‘nutritionist’, Patrick Holford. He’s the chap who thinks that chromium and cinnamon can treat diabetes (watch the video), among other odd beliefs. For all the details, check badscience.net, holfordwatch and here. For a quick symopsis, look at Holfordmyths.org. Patrick Holford and Drew Fobbester are joint researchers and [...] (Source: DC's Improbable Science) DC's Improbable Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1220900 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:41:39 +0100 1220900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1113676&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D211 A merry christmas to one and all (or, depending on your mood, possibly bah humbug). After the last post (and the next one), here’s something a bit lighter. Last week I was in Brighton at the British Pharmacological Society Winter meeting in the Hilton Metropole (the less said about that hotel [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1113676 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:38:43 +0100 1113676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1075309&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D209 The press releases (STOP PRESS) Uhuh, here we go again. All over the media we see headlines like “Honey ‘beats cough medicine’ “. Take for example, the Daily Telegraph, where Ben Farmer writes “Honey is better at treating children’s coughs than an ingredient used in many over-the-counter medicines, according to new research”. That is NOT what the [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1075309 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:40:29 +0100 1075309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1070455&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D209 Uhuh, here we go again. All over the media we see headlines like “Honey ‘beats cough medicine’ “. Even the normally reliable James Randerson in the Guardian fell for it. But this is what the research paper itself says (DM refers to the standard ‘cough suppressant’ dextromethorphan, which is already known to be ineffective). “honey was significantly superior [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1070455 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:47:53 +0100 1070455 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1090750&cid=t_99978_97_f&fid=36415&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D209 The press releases (STOP PRESS) Uhuh, here we go again. All over the media we see headlines like “Honey ‘beats cough medicine’ “. Take for example, the Daily Telegraph, where Ben Farmer writes “Honey is better at treating children’s coughs than an ingredient used in many over-the-counter medicines, according to new research”. That is NOT what the [...] (Source: DC's Improbable Science) DC's Improbable Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1090750 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:43:31 +0100 1090750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1044262&cid=t_99978_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D203 This advertisement has to be one of the sneakiest bits of spin that I’ve seen in a while. It appeared in today’s Guardian.  And a lot more people will see it than will look at the homeopathic nonsense on the Boots ‘education’ site. What on earth does it mean? One interpretation could be this. We [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1044262 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:20:29 +0100 1044262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1012487&cid=t_99978_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F181140626%2F Hard to believe, isn’t it? Perhaps they were smitten with Dorothy Hamill. In any event, China’s drug regulators are threatening to pull the licenses of 16 drugmakers that allegedly ran ads exaggerating the benefits of their products. Nope, warning letters just won’t do. The State Food and Drug Administration claims the ads contained “a large amount of unscientific assertion and pledges on the products’ benefits and effects,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported. And customers have been misled and laws broken, and the state FDA has ordered its local branches to ensure the companies remove the offending ads, according to the Associated Press. Among the alleged exaggerations was a claim by Tonghua Shenlong Pharmaceutical that its Naoxintong medication c... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1012487 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:39:30 +0100 1012487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=928957&cid=t_99978_149_f&fid=35788&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.chembark.com%2F2007%2F10%2F05%2Fwhats-wrong-with-this-picture-returns%2F Hello friends.  Remember me?  It’s your ol’ buddy, Paul Bracher. You’re probably asking yourself, “What brings this guy back from the dead?”  Well, when a postdoc in our lab showed me what arrived in the mail, not only did I roll over in my grave, I decided to resurrect everybody’s favorite chemistry game: “What’s Wrong with this Picture?” The following 52-page brochure arrived courtesy of Oxford University Press with the following cover.  That’s right…COVER:     Oh. My. God.  The real question is: What’s right with this picture?  Not much.  There are messed up bond angles, aryl Texas carbons, acyl Texas carbons, Rhode-Island carbons, bizzare peroxides, Texas oxygens, Texas nitrogens, and the list goes o... ChemBark blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=928957 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:49:56 +0100 928957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=848354&cid=t_99978_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F153312039%2F No, it’s not that some entrepreneur has gotten ahold of “AUTISM,” trademarked the term, and is now going to use it as the name for a line of products. “Brand autism” is a term that iMedia Connection Editor-in-Chief Brad Berens uses in a September 7th interview with Sean Finnegan, CEO of OMG Digital. The term comes up in a discussion of advertising and, in particular, “interactive advertising” as being all about relationships and, indeed, a “relationship business.” A brand (says Finnegan) that “connects” with customers—that gets to them emotionally, and on a seemingly personal level—is successful. Finnegan and Berens discuss how the “relationship” between a brand and the customer can be a “conver... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=848354 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:19:51 +0100 848354 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=780466&cid=t_99978_149_f&fid=35788&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.chembark.com%2F2007%2F08%2F05%2Fads-on-chembark%2F One last piece of housekeeping before we move on to the Official ChemBark ACS Fall ‘07 Preview Post: Two people have contacted me about the possibility of advertising on ChemBark. As you know by now, I really don’t like the idea of having ads on this site. I don’t want to be perceived as having conflicts of interest when writing, holding down a second job, or personally profiting off a site that the rest of you contribute to as well. Still, it seems kind of silly to turn down money when it could go to something worthwhile, much like Kyle has done over at The Chem Blog. So, if any of you care, feel free to weigh in on the idea of ChemBark’s running ads. There are two options: Option #1 — No ads of any sort on ChemBark. Option #2 — Ads on ChemBark, with al... ChemBark blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=780466 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:33 +0100 780466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=463475&cid=t_99978_113_f&fid=34647&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newmediamedicine.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2F25%2Fadvertisement-mdvip%2F Advertisement MDVIP is the national network of physicians who practice preventive and personalized healthcare, not just the detection and treatment of disease as in most traditional primary care practices. With prevention as the cornerstone of its program, MDVIP has proven that its carefully chosen affiliated physicians provide exceptional care and achieve exceptional outcomes. These outcomes include lower hospitalization rates. MDVIP currently serves more than 45,000 patients through a growing network of more than 139 affiliated physicians located in 16 states and Washington, D.C. (Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia). MDVIP’s unique and personalize... Health Informatics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=463475 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:47:04 +0100 463475