Specialist Directory
We all want high-quality health care, but it's hard to know how to choose. There are many things to consider, including
- What your insurance covers
- Whether a healthcare specialist or service is accredited
- The location of a service
- Hours that the specialist is available
- Whether you like a healthcare specialist's personality
On this page you’ll find information to help you choose a healthcare specialist or service.
- Gene-testing startup's study responds to critics 10.22.08 A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.
- Sleep center expands 09.09.08
- Alternative Healing: Craniosacral Therapy 08.07.08 Mary Lou Smith has healing hands. Among her approaches to restoring and relaxing the body is through a newer technique that is getting much attention of late: Craniosacral therapy.
- Urinary Tract and Bladder Infections 08.07.08 Frequent urination with an accompanying burning sensation can signal a urinary tract infection.
- CDC Recommendations For Routine HIV Testing Largely Ignored Despite national guidelines issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending that all Americans aged 13 to 64 be routinely tested in all healthcare settings, private, federal and state organizations have largely failed to do so.
- UK Fast Food Chains Commit To Healthier Eating The big six fast food chains seen on high streets in the UK: Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Nando's, Subway and Wimpy have promised to make changes that make it easier for people to eat healthy restaurant meals. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants to see more fruit, vegetables and salad on menus and for less dominance of fried food.
- Open Season For Medicare Part D Enrollment From November 15th to the end of December is "open season" for American senior citizens to sign up for another year to benefit from the federal government program known as Medicare Part D designed to help eligible older Americans pay for prescription drugs.
- American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart A 14-year old American girl was kept alive for 118 days without a heart while waiting for a second heart transplant at a hospital in Florida; surgeons fitted a custom-made artificial heart after removing the first transplanted heart in July this year.
- Genetic Testing For Diabetes Type 2 Still In Its Infancy Genetic testing for type 2 diabetes is still in its infancy, said researchers who did a US study that compared risk assessment based on screening for gene variants with more traditional risk factors like weight, blood pressure and blood sugar.
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- Visconti Imaging&Vein Institute
1114 Charlevoix Ave
Phone: 231-439-9700
Email:
Website: www.drvisconti.com
- National Library of Medicine 08.04.08 Consumer and professional medical information at the National Library of Medicine.
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 08.04.08 NIH information on cardiovascular health.
- University of Michigan Health System 08.04.08 Homepage for the University of Michigan hospital.