Tag: medicine
member name: Deb S.
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May 01, 2008 07:10 AM EDT --
This is a follow-up to the article about hospitals asking for payment up front from patients. It is taken from he same American College of Physician Executive Digest
On its website, the . . .
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June 30, 2008 08:53 AM EDT --
About 100 Californians a month are being harmed in adverse events considered preventable. A lawmaker proposes banning reimbursements to hospitals for some types of injuries.
By Jordan Rau
Los . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
This appeared in the New York Times today (7/29)
According to New York Times Well columnist Tara Parker-Pope, data from a Johns Hopkins study published this year in the journal Medicine . . .
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July 29, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a nationally known orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, and a paid consultant for Zimmer Holdings, the manufacturer of a metal hip socket called the Durom Cup, recently . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
A nonprofit Web site from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) called Lab Tests Online http://labtestsonline.org offers patients easy access to detailed but consumer-friendly . . .
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August 26, 2008 01:40 PM EDT --
Sign In and Pay Now
<cite>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</cite>
August 26, 2008
Patients who need medical procedures are accustomed to following a familiar pattern: Talk to a doctor, . . .
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August 03, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
A father and son interview explains how McAllen, a small town in Texas could become the center of the healthcare reform controversy. A month or so ago, Dr. Gawande wrote an op ed piece in the New Yorker . . .
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July 25, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
In a recent New York Times article, the reporter described two new drugs in clinical trials for Type 2 diabetes, both of which seem to have a remarkable and unexpected side effect, at least in animals . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:08 PM EST --
from New York Times
December 30, 2008
American medicine is in a crisis mode when it comes to geriatric care, and
the problem will only get worse . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
from Washington Post
December 30, 2008
Dolly Sweet, 77, has battled cancer more than once. She's a fighter. But when
her doctor recently prescribed a medication that cost $35,000 . . .
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January 22, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
New evidence may explain why it is that we lose not only our youthful looks, but also our youthful pattern of gene activity with age. A report in the November 26th issue of the journal Cell, . . .
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January 30, 2009 11:31 AM EST --
The New York Times (1/30, Barrow) reports, "Hospital patients are
rarely able to identify their doctors by name or to describe
their roles in the patients' care," . . .
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July 24, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --

MedHelp, a website with over 5.5 million monthly users, is the largest online health community site connecting people withshared medical experiences. MedHelp provides its users with access to . . .
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November 05, 2008 08:01 AM EST --
USA Today(11/3, Appleby) reports, "Some health plans offered by AARP, the older Americans advocacy group, mislead consumers into thinking they're protected from catastrophic health costs, . . .
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August 22, 2008 09:25 AM EDT --
Many healthcare policy gurus have predicted a steep rise in healthcare expenditures as more people live to be centenarians and beyond. This is certainly a concern since the fastest growing group in the . . .
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July 28, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
This week our novel, Rabbit in the Moon is featured on AuthorBuzz: http://www.authorbuzz.com/dearreader/index.shtml . Five people will receive free autographed books, so take a look and e-mail us if . . .
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July 07, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
My husband Joel and I are headed to the northeast for a mini-book tour of our newest medical mystery thriller, Rabbit in the Moon. We will start with Thrillerfest in Manhattan at the Grand Hyatt. It's . . .
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June 02, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
(I did some of my training at the University of Maryland, so I found this article from the Baltimore Sun particularly interesting. But it's a general issue for the entire country.)
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May 19, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
Taken from the American College of Physician Executives digest.
In a front-page article, the New York Times (5/18, A1, Sack) reported that "[f]or decades, malpractice lawyers . . .
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March 05, 2009 08:08 AM EST --
As a physician myself, I am always appalled by stories of physicians behaving in less than a professional manner. Unfortunately I am hearing (and even experiencing within my own family) . . .
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