When doctors know each other: Patients benefit when specialists know referring physicians, research says
Are you likely to receive better care if the specialist treating you knows your primary care physician?
Jan 3, 2023
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Are you likely to receive better care if the specialist treating you knows your primary care physician?
Jan 3, 2023
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An effective treatment for most stroke victims—even those who, today, are unable to gain access to care within the first few hours. This is the goal of an experimental method that has been tested with great success in an ...
Jun 8, 2023
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Medicaid beneficiaries face barriers in accessing medical care—and that includes contraceptive care. A new study finds that despite birth control being an essential health service, all primary care physicians that see them ...
Mar 17, 2023
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Melatonin use among children and teenagers is on the rise, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports increased calls to poison control centers and visits to the emergency room, primarily because of more unintentional ...
Sep 20, 2022
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All six of Michelle Ehlert's children have Medicaid plans that should cover their dental care. But for years, she and her husband paid for dental care out-of-pocket—sometimes thousands of dollars a year.
Jun 14, 2023
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Using blood pressure medications to lower the top number of blood pressure readings (systolic blood pressure) may not be safe or effective among people who have an acute ischemic stroke and undergo a successful mechanical ...
Feb 13, 2023
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When Hannah, a California marketing professional, showed up at her local emergency room in March 2023 for a pregnancy-related complication, she wasn't prepared for what happened next.
Oct 5, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic created a real-life experiment that demanded health care providers nationwide rapidly stand up clinics to administer an evolving offering of monoclonal antibody treatments that—while initially proven ...
Apr 3, 2023
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People with one form of the genetic blood disorder hemophilia now have a one-time treatment with a $3.5 million price tag.
Nov 23, 2022
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New research finds little evidence that post-surgical patient mortality is lower when patient and surgeon are the same gender.
Nov 22, 2023
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