Health

Is your own MD best in the hospital? Study eyes hospitalists

The old-fashioned, family doctor style of medicine could be lifesaving for elderly hospitalized patients, a big study suggests, showing benefits over a rapidly expanding alternative that has hospital-based doctors overseeing ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Delayed Alzheimer's diagnoses common, troubling

Claire Schooley tried for several years to get doctors to diagnose what was going on with her husband, David, now 57. He would ask her the same questions again and again, never remembering the answers. He would grow confused. ...

Health

Doctors face steep Medicaid cuts as fee boost ends

Primary care doctors caring for low-income patients will face steep fee cuts next year as a temporary program in President Barack Obama's health care law expires. That could squeeze access just when millions of new patients ...

Medical economics

Primary care lessons for Canada from OECD countries

To improve primary care, Canada can learn from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with high rates of patients attached to primary care clinicians, write authors in an analysis in the Canadian ...

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