New Guideline For Low-Back Pain Interventions, Surgery Issued By The American Pain Society The American Pain Society (APS) has issued a new clinical practice guideline for low back pain that emphasizes the use of noninvasive treatments over interventional procedures, as well as shared decision making between provider and patient. The findings are published in the current (May 1, 2009) issue of the journal Spine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOnly Half Of Brits Can Find Their Heart UK researchers who asked over 700 patients and members of the public to pick out a diagram that showed the correct location of the human heart found that less than half of them were able to do so. Less than one third placed the lungs correctly although 85 per cent of them were able correctly to place the intestines.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWHO Raises Pandemic Alert To Phase 6, Director General Gives Speech The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6, following an emergency meeting yesterday by WHO scientists in Geneva to assess the available evidence on global infections of A(H1N1) swine flu. WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said: "The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic.
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