News tagged with medical care providers


Advance directives manage end of life care issues and reduce end of life medical costs

A new article available online in the American Journal of Public Health by two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty makes a compelling case that end-of-life care issues need to become an integral part o ...

Health created May 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical innovation/quality improvement platform featured in Health Affairs

A quality improvement platform developed at Boston Children's Hospital could help health care provider groups continuously improve their medical practice, curbing costs and improving patient outcomes. Successful outcomes ...

Health created May 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TEDMED: Get the joy back into health and wellness

(HealthDay)—Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., the 18th Surgeon General of the United States, led the stage presentation "Can Joy Be the Key That Unlocks the Puzzle?" at TEDMED 2013, held from April 16 to 19 ...

Health created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chronic pain ranks well below drug addiction as a major health problem in new poll

A new national public opinion poll commissioned by Research!America shows only 18% of respondents believe chronic pain is a major health problem, even though a majority of Americans (63%) say they know someone who experienced ...

Medications created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings point to the importance of illness behavior

A paper by a group of Italian investigators in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new data on the role of illness behavior in determining the illness impact.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploring the link between traumatic brain injury and people who are homeless

Homeless people and their health care providers need to know more about traumatic brain injuries to help prevent and treat such injuries, a new study has found.

Health created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New clinical tool assesses health risks for older adults

A UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine – and perhaps influence – senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates.

Health created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most parents believe vaccines are safe for children, research finds

(Medical Xpress)—New research from the University of Adelaide shows that 95% of parents believe vaccines are safe for their children despite the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety.

Medications created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA: Omontys injection pulled from market

(HealthDay)—Affymax Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited of Deerfield, Ill., have voluntarily recalled all lots of Omontys Injection, used to treat anemia in adult dialysis ...

Medications created Feb 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Youths with autism spectrum disorder need help transitioning to adult health care

Health care transition (HCT) services help young people with special health care needs such as asthma or diabetes move from pediatric to adult health care. However, youths with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have less access ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FSMB: Approaches explored for expediting multi-state licenses

(HealthDay)—New approaches are being explored for streamlining physician multi-state licensure to accommodate the use of telemedicine in the delivery of health care, according to a report from a meeting ...

Health created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emergency room redux for many patients after hospitalization

Following a hospitalization, patients face many challenges as they transition home. A new study of this vulnerable period published by Yale School of Medicine researchers in JAMA found that a substantial number of patien ...

Health created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CDC: Flu activity continues to be high across the United States

(HealthDay)—Flu remains at epidemic proportions across the United States, but flu activity decreased in some areas during the second week of January, according to FluView, a weekly influenza surveillance ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 19, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify ways to improve quality of care measurement from electronic health records

Health care providers and hospitals are being offered up to $27 billion in federal financial incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs) in ways that demonstrably improve the quality of care. The incentives are based, ...

Health created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American College of Physicians calls for immunizations for all health care providers

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has approved a policy recommendation that all health care providers (HCPs) be immunized against influenza; diphtheria; hepatitis B; measles, mumps, and rubella; pertussis (whooping ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0