According to a 2012 survey cited in the Institute of Medicine’s report Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life, more than 75 percent of respondents reported an interest in talking to their physicians about end-of-life care issues. The sam...

Two ISMS members are using a powerful free resource to make a difference in combating prescription drug abuse. As pain physicians, Sandeep D. Amin, MD, and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, evaluate several patients a day in their office. Routinely, they use the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program to c...

According to a 2012 survey cited in the Institute of Medicine’s report Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life, more than 75 percent of respondents reported an interest in talking to their physicians about end-of-life care issues. The sam...

An estimated 157,000 Illinois residents are infected with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Experts have determined that baby boomers (people born between 1945 and 1965) are five times more likely than other adults to be infected. Approximately 75% of people diagnosed with chronic Hepatitis C in the Unit...