NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Electronic health records have been held up as a way to improve medical care, but a new study suggests they are not necessarily ...
"Hospital at home" programs fundamentally refashion care for chronically ill patients who have acute medical problems -- testing traditional notions of how ...
A study published in the June 2012 issue Journal of the American College of Surgeons reports that surgical patients who smoke tend to have higher hospital ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults who are at high risk of falls should ... a professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and vice co-chair of ...
This is especially important since childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage ...
Traditional risk scoring methods miss important nuances of rheumatoid arthritis patients when calculating their risk of heart disease. Also this week, TAVI via the ...
PHILADELPHIA -- Bone is more than an inert repository for calcium and in fact may be an endocrine organ, a researcher suggested here at the American ...
Binge eating may be the next target of health-risk behaviors among employed ... and Steven Schwartz, with Wellness & Prevention, a Fort Washington, Pa. ... to improve the health, productivity and performance of employee populations will be ...
Diabetics often suffer from foot infections, yet appropriate care can save limbs, and ultimately lives, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America's new ...
More than half of school-aged children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are on some sort of medication. More work is being done to help diagnose ...
Bryce Hewlett, a 27-year-old community organizer, hopes to help the DCRC gain "a seat at the table" as Delaware works to reform its mental health system.
Today City of Richmond is partnering with Local Initiatives Support Coalition ... The General Plan contains innovative policies to improve community health and ...