Doctors Who Order More Tests Have Fewer Malpractice Claims
Study explores link between 'defensive medicine' and malpractice claims
Poll: Americans Want Health Care Costs Kept in Check
Suggestions include price controls on drugs, hospitals, and doctors
Endovascular Tx Beats tPA Alone for Stroke Patients
Patients who had procedure were more likely to have functional independence after 90 days
Pertussis in Childhood Tied to Small Increase in Epilepsy Risk
But chances of any one child developing epilepsy remain low
AMA: 6 Steps to Help Ensure Patients Get Preventive Care
Panel management helps physicians provide preventive and chronic care to all patients
Doctors Should Consider Financial Factors Before Career Change
Issues to consider include cost of career change, ability to use Internet to monetize skills
Prescription Medication Use on the Rise in the United States
Many adults take five or more medications, often for preventable ills
New Electronic Health Record Regulations Released
New regulations modify Stage 2 of meaningful use program and finalize requirements for Stage 3
October 2015 Briefing – Neurology
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Neurology for October 2015. This roundup includes the latest...
Prediabetes Linked to Incident Cardiovascular Disease
In U.K. cohort, association varied with ethnicity and with prediabetes definition criterion
