Health Care Providers & Specialties

Increasing Medicare deductibles and copayments is a short-sighted plan to save money and Congress should instead change how physicians are paid, moving away from a volume-based system and focusing on … Read More

The call for nominations for positions on the AAHPM Board of Directors, Nominating Committee as well as nominations for AAHPM Annual Awards are now open on the AAHPM website. All AAHPM members are inv… Read More

A five-day glucocorticoid therapy with prednisone was as effective as the standard 14-day course in treating patients suffering from severe bouts of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a study in S… Read More

Children who were exposed to secondhand smoke in the womb or while they were growing up had a higher risk of displaying aggressiveness and antisocial behavior by age 10 than their unexposed peers, Can… Read More

Advocare, an independent physicians group, is using daily phone calls from care coordinators to patients as a way to reduce hospital readmissions. The practice has a financial incentive to do so in it… Read More

When experiencing burnout, nurses should be empowered to communicate and know they will be heard by their organization, said Dana Nelson-Peterson, administrative director for ambulatory nursing servic… Read More

A researcher in Sweden found that injecting a plasma protein at the site of chronic wounds in diabetic mice significantly improved the rate of healing. Yue Shen, a doctoral student working on his thes… Read More

The five-year cure rate for "slow Mohs" excision of lentigo maligna melanoma is near 100%, compared with a 20% recurrence rate with standard excision, dermatologist Ellen Marmur said at the Hawaii Der… Read More

Excess body fat in people over age 50 can lead to hardening of the arteries and an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, according to a U.K. study in the journal Hypertension. Researche… Read More

It's no longer enough to simply develop a website for your business, writes Phillip Klien. "For those of you that aren't studying your website analytics to enhance business, the investment it took to … Read More

The expected surge in newly insured patients through the Accountable Care Act, combined with the nation's growing and aging population, poses a major problem for the health care system: There are not … Read More

Men with mutations in the FTO gene were up to 1.87 times more likely to gain excess weight than those without it, a study indicated. Researchers also found women who carried a matrix metalloproteinase… Read More

CMS said its second round of federal Health Care Innovation Awards will offer $1 billion in grants for projects that can quickly reduce Medicare costs, improve care for patients with special needs and… Read More

Data from the Listening to Mothers III survey by Harris Interactive documented overuse of procedures such as labor induction and cesarean delivery among pregnant women, while beneficial services inclu… Read More

U.S. senators on Wednesday voted 91-7 to install Marilyn Tavenner as the first confirmed CMS administrator since 2006. Tavenner is a former health system leader and nurse and was secretary of health a… Read More

Surgical equipment noise, music and staff chatter in an operating room can impede surgeons' ability to understand what is being said, potentially leading to errors, according to a study published in t… Read More

Bioabsorbable coronary stents are a topic of great interest among interventionalists, says SCAI President-elect Dr. Charles Chambers, but there are still questions to be answered about the new technol… Read More

In Touch Health's Remote Presence Virtual Independent Telemedicine Assistant is a fourth-generation robot that can drive itself down hospital corridors instead of being controlled by physicians using … Read More

A number of education sessions at this year's SNMMI Annual Meeting will focus on the newly approved radium-223 dichloride, a targeted radioisotope therapy for castrate-resistant prostate cancer, write… Read More

Bipolar disorder -– where patients experience recurrent episodes of mood disturbance, ranging from extreme elation (mania) to severe depression -- is thought to affect roughly 2% of the world's popu… Read More

Does your work reflect a multidisciplinary approach to pain? The APS Scientific Program Committee invites submissions of symposium proposals for presentation at the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting Apri… Read More