Health Care Providers & Specialties

Data from 14 grants to primary care practices found establishing a patient-centered medical home can be a long, difficult process but one that is essential to providing high-quality health care to pat… Read More

Attend the AAHPM Hospice Medical Director Conference Aug. 29-31 in Indianapolis. Learn how to manage more effectively in this rapidly changing hospice workplace. Reformatted with "essentials" and "inn… Read More

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a committee opinion advising against the use of menopausal hormone therapy for primary or secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.… Read More

Between 1999 and 2009, the number of bicyclists younger than age 16 who died in a collision with a motor vehicle was lower in states with mandatory helmet laws than in states without such laws, U.S. r… Read More

Health care experts writing in a Health Affairs blog proposed seven policy changes to improve health care quality, such as measuring outcomes instead of processes and making better use of performance … Read More

Experiencing frequent heartburn is linked with 78% greater odds of developing throat or vocal cord cancers among individuals who are not drinkers or heavy smokers, according to a study in the journal … Read More

Experts in a session during the Google Big Tent conference in London debated whether advances in robotics and prosthetics could lead to such unprecedented situations as people wanting to replace healt… Read More

Sandoz recalled two lots of its methotrexate sodium USP, 25 mg/mL, 40 mL vial injectable drug, which is indicated for rheumatoid arthritis, severe psoriasis and neoplastic diseases. The drugmaker foun… 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

To help Oklahoma shelters make room for the many animals displaced by this week's devastating tornado, animal shelters in Green Bay, Wis., and Texas have received dogs from the Central Oklahoma Humane… 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

The FDA has approved Roche Holding to market its Cobas Integra 800 A1C test for use in diabetes detection. The laboratory assay is the first such test to be granted marketing approval for measuring bl… Read More

Hospitals with the best rates of inpatient cardiac arrest survival also excel at preventing cardiac arrests, University of Michigan researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found nurs… Read More

Bed rest during pregnancy may have little benefit in preventing premature birth, according to the results of a recent study that have prompted calls from specialists for more rigorous research to dete… Read More

CDC researchers spoke with almost 77,000 adults between 2008 and 2010 and found that many continued to make lifestyle choices that raised their risk of heart disease and chronic disease. Data showed 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

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are planning to study methods to speed the treatment of trauma patients with uncontrolled bleeding. Plasma t… Read More

Researchers undertaking phantom studies have employed two specialized algorithms to improve tumor detection during 18F-FDG-PET imaging. The algorithms were intended for accurate partial volume correct… Read More

Minimally invasive autopsy has accuracy similar to that of conventional autopsy for detection of cause of death or major pathological abnormality after death in fetuses, newborns and infants, but was … 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