HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- A new long-term study says that kids in families that have at least five meals together a week tend to practice good eating habits.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- This one should come as no surprise to most consumers: A patient's bill of rights, the document that outlines your expectations for medical care, is usually written in language so dense and crammed with legalese that you need college-level reading skills to understand it.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women who quit smoking before the 15th week of pregnancy reduce their risk of premature birth and having small babies to that of nonsmoking women, a new study finds.
AFP - Patients at the Mission of Mercy free mobile medical clinic in the state of Maryland usually begin lining up before dawn just to get a shot at seeing the dentist or doctor.
AP - If you ever had to pay to see a doctor who wasn't in your insurance network, you might have wondered how your bill was calculated. Sen. Jay Rockefeller says it might have been by fraud.
There is broad consensus that electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare providers. Yet, to date, there has been no reliable estimate of the prevalence of EHR use among U.S. hospitals.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) reports that cases of influenza illnesses in the state have been steadily increasing and as of last week, was widespread in the state. Healthcare facilities are reporting flu outbreaks and HEALTH Laboratories have confirmed the presence of antiviral-resistant influenza in Rhode Island.
HEALTH tracks influenza activity in the state and reports it to the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) on a weekly basis.
Even when their products are implicated in harm to patients, manufacturers of healthcare information technology (HIT) currently enjoy wide contractual and legal protection that renders them virtually ?liability-free,? writes Ross Koppel, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The healthcare crisis is attributed to many factors, but not the unethical suppression of innovation. Innovation that improves the quality of care, thus reducing utilization, was advanced twenty years ago as the only solution to healthcare economics.
Researchers have gathered data that may help explain ?Broken Heart Syndrome?. People who experience symptoms of the rare condition, medically known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, experience weakened hearts, leading to symptoms that mimic heart attack. The medical community has little understanding of broken heart syndrome, making treatment difficult.
