The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has officially endorsed the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, which determines physician payments from Medicare, in hopes of replacing it with a 10-year fixed...
Read MoreNurses introducing themselves as “doctor” may not be too common today, but by 2015 doctorates may be required of all nurse practitioners. The question is, will these highly educated nurses be able to use the title of...
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Along with their little bundle of joy and a stack of papers and pamphlets, some new parents are...
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Most patients approve of teaching facilities and training residents. However, a new study has...
Read MoreWhat messages are you unwittingly conveying to your patients through nonverbal cues, and what cues are they sending to you that you may be missing? A recent study in this month’s issue of Journal of Evaluation in Clinical...
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Surgeons are concerned that organ availability will decrease because new organ transplant...
Read MorePQRIwizard allows physicians to quickly and easily participate in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) with an easy-to-use online tool that provides step-by-step guidance through the reporting system. PQRS 2011 is a...
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Though you dutifully wash your hands, your hand-hygiene efforts may be in vain if you touch...
Read MoreSome residents appear to pay a high price to become a doctor—and that’s in addition to the cost of education. Suboptimal quality of life and symptoms of burnout are associated with educational debt among residents, according to...
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Light to moderate drinking—be it of beer, wine, or spirits—seems to reduce the risk for dementia...
Read MoreA recent analysis in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that the use of smartphones for clinical communication increased efficiency among physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals compared with the use of...
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More than 60% of uniforms worn by hospital nurses and doctors tested positive for potentially...
Read MoreOver the next 14 months, patents for seven of the world’s top-selling brand-name drugs are set to expire – including heavy hitters like Lipitor and Plavix. Revenues the pharma companies earn from these drugs will plunge...
Read MoreSalary figures recently released by Forbes may discourage medical students who are in debt up to their eyeballs from becoming pediatricians or family practitioners, who typically earn around $180,000 a year. While that figure...
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While the risk of being sued for malpractice can range from 2.6% for psychiatrists to almost 20%...
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On average, drugs in short supply are being marked up by 650% on the gray market, according to an...
Read MoreResearchers from London claim to have identified a master regulator gene that causes obesity, is linked to diabetes and cholesterol, and controls the behavior of distant genes existing inside fat cells. This discovery may...
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One in 16 surgeons had suicidal thoughts in the past year, according to a survey of nearly 8,000...
Read MoreAlthough most doctors feel that funding from the healthcare industry may bias continuing medical education (CME), a report published this week found that they don’t appear to be willing to pay for impartial information....
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A new study has found that depressed individuals appear to perform better in sequential decision...
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