Hospital readmission, an important measure of quality care, costs the United States an estimated $17 billion each year. And according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), about half of those readmissions ...
Jun 11, 2014
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Adolescents tend to be more powerful in influencing their friends to start smoking than in helping them to quit, according to sociologists.
Jun 11, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—A new study estimates that tobacco smoking has been linked to approximately 2 million deaths among adult men and women in Asia in recent years and predicts a rising death toll.
Jun 11, 2014
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As little as two hours a day behind the wheel is a potential risk factor for a range of poor health behaviours and outcomes, a University of Sydney study has shown.
Jun 11, 2014
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It's a sick child's sanctuary, with a big difference. Instead of a hospital bed, there's a mat and chair placed under a shimmering waterfall of fiber optics, a disco ball and stars that dance around the ceiling and change ...
Jun 11, 2014
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Although Australia continues to be a world leader in lead metal mining, smelting and processing, international scientists have raised urgent concerns in a new Environment International paper about a lack of understanding ...
Jun 11, 2014
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Nothing ruins a summer vacation faster than getting sick.
Jun 11, 2014
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More than 600 doctors, nurses and other NHS health professionals are today urging the UK Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health to publish draft regulations on standardized, plain tobacco packaging.
Jun 10, 2014
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In an editorial, The BMJ's Editor-in-Chief, Fiona Godlee and Patient Partnership Editor, Tessa Richards, explain that, over the past six months, an international panel of patient advisors the journal has set up "have stimulated, ...
Jun 10, 2014
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The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to make it easier for patients enduring long waits for care at Veterans Affairs facilities to get VA-paid treatment from local doctors.
Jun 10, 2014
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