“If we look across the major health challenges that face the United States and the world today, many of them pertain to population health level concerns,” says Springgate, who is also LSU’s chief of community and population medicine and director of its MD-MPH program.“A master’s...
“If we look across the major health challenges that face the United States and the world today, many of them pertain to population health level concerns,” says Springgate, who is also LSU’s chief of community and population medicine and director of its MD-MPH program....
Ultrasound is often associated with pregnancy, since it's used to generate a "picture" of the fetus. However, ultrasounds are also used to check for problems in specific areas of the body. “Ultrasound is a great modality for seeing structures that are relatively close to the skin surface,...
Kagan is a nurse practitioner and diabetes educator with Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore. Richard L. Seidman, MD, MPH Seidman is former chief medical officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest publicly operated health plan in the U.S. Evan M. Sisson, PharmD, MSHA, BCAC...
unprovoked seizures. Your doctor may diagnose you with epilepsy if you have two unprovoked seizures or one unprovoked seizure with a high risk of more. Not all seizures are the result of epilepsy. Seizures may relate to a brain injury or a family trait, but often the cause is completely ...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a group of different types of heart disease. Common heart disease symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, light-headedness, and dizziness. Heart disease has many causes, including genetics, atherosc
Laura J. Martin, MD, MPH ON THIS PAGE The retina is a thin piece of tissue that sits on the back wall of the eye, saysBrian VanderBeek, MD, an ophthalmologist at Penn Medicine and assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ...
“People try to correlate it with female menopause where you have a sudden drop in female hormones and estrogen drops abruptly — but male menopause is not the same,” says Ramy Abou Ghayda, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of urology at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University...
MPH, FRCPC Cardiologist Vancouver, BC What is a Heart Attack? " Patrick a 70-year-old diabetic man with a 2-year history of stable chest pain" Case Introduction Medications Considered In Heart Attack Recovery Presented by Dr. Graham Wong ...
The DNP vs MD Comparison A DNP (doctor of nursing practice) and an MD (medical doctor) are vastly different. One is trained in nursing, and the other is trained in medicine. The DNP nurse has achieved the highest degree awarded in the field of nursing. It demonstrates that the nurse ...