The greatest challenge associated with endocrine complications in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is early recognition of these subtle problems. Endocrine complications can produce significant impact on the progress and outcome of TBI rehabilitation. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of endocrine complications following TBI facilitate the rehabilitation process of patients with TBI.  Read the full story

Whether you are a physician, a psychologist, an occupational therapist, another type of health professional or an administrator, the complexity of managing your office and vital patient functions tends to go hand in hand with the diversity of your practice model. That applies especially to multidisciplinary practices and those assessing or treating patients covered under more than one plan or program.  Read the full story

They may not have known it, but for a number of years most employees covered under pay-direct (a.k.a. drug card) plans have had their prescriptions captured and monitored by real time drug adjudication systems that incorporate sophisticated control, security and safety logic. These controls have collectively been referred to by the employee benefits industry as DUR, for Drug Utilization Review. DUR systems check a patient’s current and newly prescribed medications for drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions, multiple doctoring, quantity restrictions and internal plan cost controls such as those for mandatory generic substitution, reimbursement limits, co-payments and maximums. Read the full story

For many of the thousands of Canadian men, women and children who suffer from chronic pain, medication and physical therapy are simply not enough to help them successfully manage the daily discomfort they experience. Yet that is often the extent of their treatment, and so they are made to endure their pain, often feeling hopeless and emotionally distressed about their never-healing condition. Their treating physicians’ exhaustion of known treatment modalities often contributes to their despair, leaving them to suffer in silence and feeling ignored. Read the full story

Chronic pain resulting from serious injury or illness has both physical and psychological aspects, which makes it difficult to manage. It is a field that gets much attention, and therapies are constantly changing with the next study, the next new drug, and the next article in a medical journal. Here are some of the more current techniques that are being employed effectively.  Read the full story

Ontario’s leadership in the field of biotherapeutics research was bolstered last June when the Ministry of Research and Innovation announced that it would provide more than $23 million to support six world-class biotherapeutics projects and 100 researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa.  Read the full story