Medicaid recently announced a policy of not paying for certain medical conditions typically not present on admission, but only acquired...
Read MoreAccording to a paper recently published in the Journal of American Medical Information Association, by Dr. Karen Nanji of Massachusetts...
Read MoreAccording to a report on KATU, hemochromatosis (an overload of iron in the blood with a hereditary cause) is the...
Read MoreLast year I posted an update on a frightening trend: surgery being performed on the wrong body part, or even...
Read MoreA report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found that almost one hundred Oregon patients covered by...
Read MoreA recent simulation study found that surgeons' skills are impaired as late as 4:00 P.M. the next day after a...
Read MorePresident Obama has set a lofty goal of reducing by forty percent the number of preventable medical errors over the...
Read MoreIn a letter submitted to a congressional health committee, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan organization that...
Read MoreWe recently posted on how a lack of communication among workers in hospitals is leading to serious errors. A report...
Read MoreWe reported recently on a recent study that showed a lack of communication between ER doctors and primary care physicians...
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