Many patients with Alzheimer’s disease can still identify a trusted individual to make decisions about participation in research, even when their cognitive abilities have declined to the point that they may not be able to give informed consent for...
Health care providers protect patient information through daily actions, but failures resulting in breaches of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are increasingly costly. Initially passed into law in 2003...
For doctors unable to meet meaningful use requirements for 2015, Congress has approved a blanket process for those applying for a hardship exemption to avoid having a penalty applied to their Medicare payments in 2017.
A “broad swath” of Medicare providers wrote scripts for opioids in 2013, contradicting the idea that the overdose epidemic is mainly the work of “small groups of prolific prescribers and corrupt pill mills,” investigators wrote online in JAMA...
Although 2015 might not have been the year of the blockbuster Alzheimer’s drug, it did lay a few more paving stones on the road to understanding the disease.
Regular aspirin use appears to protect against the development of metastatic and fatal prostate cancer, according to an analysis of the Physicians’ Health Study.
Less than half of U.S. hospitals require health care workers to receive annual flu shots, according to a survey study with responses from nearly 500 facilities.
A number of studies have reported that diet interventions can be an effective strategy for preventing or delaying the onset of dementia in older adults. While the Mediterranean (MedDiet) and the DASH (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) diets...
A patient with acute pneumonia arrives in the emergency department of your local hospital. The patient and accompanying family members are originally from a rural village in an underdeveloped country, where the local belief is that pneumonia is best...
