il grande problema della pressione visto dagli studenti

As a medical student I was taught the CKD hypertension gospel straight from the good book of JNC VII: Thou shalt lower the blood pressure to less than 130/80! This was many years after David Bowe and Freddie Mercury but I got the song stuck in my head when I started thinking about the post so I had to put it up there. 

On this day in public health history: Children in Pittsburgh receive the first injections of a new polio vaccine, in 1954.

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la prima iniezione di vaccino contro la Polio, il mondo non sara’ piu’ lo stesso!

CHICAGO, February 22, 2012 – The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) today announced major changes in how the nation’s medical residency programs will be accredited in the years ahead, putting in place an outcomes-based evaluation system where the doctors of tomorrow will be measured for their competency in performing the essential tasks necessary for clinical practice in the 21st century.

Summarized in a paper published in the February 22, 2012 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the ACGME’s next accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME) will be fully implemented by 2014. When the new system goes into effect, each accredited medical residency program must demonstrate that its residents have the core competencies and clinical skills to deliver quality patient care and respond to rapid developments in health care delivery. The ACGME’s new system will cover more than 9,000 medical residency programs across the country.

Primary care physicians should talk to patients about ways to lower their sodium intake by about a quarter teaspoon of salt each day, says a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official.

Such a reduction would prevent thousands of deaths from cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke a year and save billions in health care dollars, said Mary E. Cogswell, DrPH, a senior scientist in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Maggiori risorse per le strutture ospedaliere e per la ricerca, più formazione, leggi chiare che tutelino la dignità del paziente. In caso contrario c’è il rischio concreto che la Sanità imploda. È quanto chiedono e denunciano i camici bianchi su Nuto (www.nuto.it), il primo social network libero e indipendente ad accesso riservato ai soli medici italiani.

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Prostate cancer: Symptoms – MayoClinic.com

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Estimated GFR reporting is not sufficient to allow detection of chronic kidney disease in an Italian regional hospital
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