Five tips to help you navigate Medicare: 1) You must sign up for Medicare when you turn 65. 2) Medicare is not free. 3) Medicare does not cover everything . . .
Foster kids were more likely to be prescribed five or more psychotropic drugs at a time and at doses that exceed the maximum FDA-approved levels.
Group Health Cooperative reports more than $2.5 million in cost savings during the first seven months of this year for its 8,224 patients in complex case management and 1,831 patients in regular case management.
Defying the economy, hospitals are hiring. In fact, over the past 12 months, health care has created 20 percent of all new jobs. Most sought after: administrative staff and clerks rather than care givers.
In a given week, a primary-care doctor might need to review 360 chemistry test results, 460 hematology results, 12 pathology reports and 40 radiology reports.
Republicans blocked confirmation of President Obama’s appointee Dr. Donald M. Berwick. The current political climate on Capitol Hill may mean that Tavenner is just as likely to see her nomination stall
Seniors have only two weeks left to choose a new Medicare Advantage or prescription drug plan, if they want to change from their current ones.
The U.S. spends more than twice as much as the average developed country but ranks 27th in life expectancy, 31st in premature mortality, and 25th in the rate of cardiovascular mortality.
Medical journals are getting hip, adding mobile-, tablet- and web-friendly apps to capture a new generation of doctors.
Will pot save healthcare reform? Shortage of key drugs threatens patients’ lives. What’s behind the attack on Planned Parenthood?
After more than a year of deliberations, the FDA has revoked approval of the biotech blockbuster Avastin, a medicine that chokes off the blood supply to various cancer cells, as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
In-store medical clinics like those at Walmart – having established a beachhead with relatively healthy patients looking for convenient, low-cost care for simple problems – are eyeing a bigger prize, the millions of Americans with costly illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease.
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