Health Care Providers & Specialties

Payments based on quality measures accounted for 3% of total compensation for primary care physicians and 2% for specialists, according to data from more than 61,000 physicians included in a Medical G… Read More

Listen to the audio from Drs. David and Debbie Oliver's moving 2013 AAHPM & HPNA Annual Assembly plenary presentation and learn what a patient and caregiver need from palliative care, what their cance… Read More

HHS issued a proposal that would require health plans involved in the online marketplaces to provide households without credit cards or bank accounts with easy payment options such as reloadable prepa… Read More

Approximately 97% of toilet-related crush injuries in the U.S., in which the penis is trapped between the lid and the bowl, involved children aged 7 and younger between 2002 and 2010, according to a s… Read More

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress said readmission penalties for hospitals that treat high numbers of poor patients are too harsh. The commission recommended Medicare change th… Read More

U.S. researchers surveyed 1,407 newly licensed registered nurses and found that 49% of them had been verbally abused by colleagues, but just 5% reported more than five instances of verbal abuse in the… Read More

Above-knee amputee Chris Bairstow is the first person in Delaware, and one of only a few dozen in the U.S., to wear an advanced prosthetic knee and leg called Power Knee. The Power Knee, manufactured … Read More

Melanoma emits detectable volatile organic compounds whose odors are different from molecules emitted by normal cells, researchers report in the Journal of Chromatography B. The finding could lead to … Read More

The FDA issued new security guidelines for manufacturers on a range of medical devices after analysts discovered vital equipment, including pacemakers and computers used to view CT scans, is vulnerabl… Read More

Veterinarian Larry Koehler, who worked on the staff at Jensen's Animal Hospital in Michigan even before attending veterinary school, is marking 40 years in practice and says he still finds his work en… Read More

Overweight and obese women are more likely to deliver their babies preterm, and the higher the mother's body mass index, the greater the risk of extremely preterm delivery, suggests a new study in the… Read More

A PricewaterhouseCoopers report estimates lower overall increases in health care costs in 2014, indicating the nation's recent slowdown in medical expenditures may become a trend. Patients seeking les… Read More

Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, Mo., is spending $6 million on an expanded cancer treatment center intended to increase comfort and convenience for patients. Truman is one of the Midwest Cancer… Read More

Babies who received inhaled racemic adrenaline for acute bronciolitis were no less likely to need nasogastric-tube feeding, supplemental oxygen or ventilators than the inhaled saline group, according … Read More

Researchers from University College London analyzed data and found a causal association between low levels of vitamin D and hypertension. They reported findings at the European Society of Human Geneti… Read More

Boston Children's Hospital will begin offering hand transplants to children born without hands, who have lost hands in accidents or who have had their hands amputated. Children regrow nerves more qui… Read More

Although overall risk remains low, a large meta-analysis confirms that heart attack and stroke risk among people who use high doses of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on a daily basis is up to on… Read More

Kentucky hospitals are adding NICU beds since the state revised its health care plan to allow the additional space and added a fourth NICU designation. Hospitals are asking the state for permission to… Read More

BMI Espicom predicts the medical device market in China will grow 20% through 2018, with diagnostic imaging tools projected to dominate the market this year. Growth will be driven in part by the count… Read More

U.S. researchers looked at more than 1,700 childhood cancer survivors and found that 98% of them had at least one chronic health condition as they became adults. The most common chronic ailment was ab… Read More

The call for applications for the 2013 Future Leaders in Pain Research Grants program is now open. This grant program was established to fund pain research projects of doctoral-prepared investigators … Read More