An expert panel has developed a communication framework to improve treatment of older, seriously ill patients who have surgical emergencies, which has been published in Annals of Surgery.
As clinicians know, dementia is not a specific disease but a syndrome comprising multiple etiologies, which regularly overlap. Perhaps the most insidious, destructive — and to the clinician, frustrating — form of dementia is of the “ambulance...
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease who performed poorly on early cognitive tests seemed to progress more rapidly than those with less baseline impairment, a study showed. Age was also an indicator of progression, with younger patients declining at a...
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.
