Physicians are among the most well-compensated professionals in the US, right? Well, it depends on how you look at it.
Wireless technologies like cell phones and radio frequency identification can help improve treatment compliance and quality of life for cancer patients.
The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Leapfrog Group, the Joint Commission, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are just a few of the many national and local payers and regulatory agencies that have developed indicators to monitor quality of care.
Physician's applying for disability due to "burnout" need to be prepared to combat insurance companies seeking to trivialize and downplay the situation.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease for which nonadherence to therapy is frequent.
Despite the fact that prehypertension has been shown to be associated with atherosclerosis and target-organ damage, no studies evaluating coronary flow reserve (CFR) among prehypertensive patients have been done. We assessed CFR in normotensive subjects, in subjects with prehypertension, and in newly diagnosed and never-treated subjects with established hypertension. We found that CFR was decreased in prehypertensive subjects, although not as significantly as in subjects with hypertension.
For patients with early breast cancer, peripheral neurotoxicity is an unfortunate side effect of treatment with taxanes, but there may be a silver lining.
The results of a randomized phase III study showed that when ipilimumab (also known as MDX-010) was administered with or without the gp100 peptide vaccine, it extended survival by 34% compared with the gp100 peptide vaccine alone in patients with previously treated advanced melanoma.
Atrial fibrillation affects over 2.2 million Americans and is estimated to affect up to 10 million by 2050.
CMS published its annual regulatory update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, including rules implementing key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
News and online resources to help you make better financial decisions for your practice.
Migraines, including those with aura, are common and generally benign, affecting between 10% and 15% of the population.