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Gym Benefits Help Medicare Plans Recruit Healthy Seniors
January 11, 2012 — Medicare Advantage plans are not allowed to exclude unhealthy (and costly) seniors, but new research shows that they have effectively used gym memberships to bring healthier (and more profitable) ... > full story -
Promoting Vaccines in Office-Based Medical Settings Is Needed to Boost Adult Immunization Rates, Experts Say
January 11, 2012 — Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, ... > full story -
Lower Risk of Death Linked With Access to Key Attributes of Primary Care
January 10, 2012 — Greater access to features of high-quality primary care -- comprehensiveness, patient-centeredness and extended office hours -- is associated with lower mortality, according to a new national U.S. ... > full story -
Diabetes Study Shines Spotlight on Lifestyle Interventions
January 10, 2012 — A new study assesses real-world lifestyle interventions to help delay or prevent the costly chronic disease that affects nearly 26 million ... > full story -
Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Linked to Hospital's Decorative Fountain
January 9, 2012 — A 2010 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin has been linked to a decorative fountain in a hospital lobby, according to a new ... > full story -
Better Together: The RN and the EHR
January 9, 2012 — In the first large study of its kind, researchers find that electronic health records are important tools for improvements in nursing care and health ... > full story -
A Smoking Cessation Benefit Can Save Money for Medicaid
January 7, 2012 — New research indicates that including comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid insurance coverage can result in substantial savings for Medicaid programs. The study found that every ... > full story -
Guidelines Stress Caution When Combining Anti-Epileptic, HIV Drugs
January 4, 2012 — New guidelines will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less ... > full story -
New Program Improves Care for Those With Advanced Illness
January 3, 2012 — A new program, which was created by health care professionals two decades ago in an effort to ensure the wishes of those with advanced illness are followed, has now spread to 34 states in the United ... > full story -
Not Equal: Quality of Care, Cost for PAD Sufferers
January 3, 2012 — Although minimally invasive treatments for patients with peripheral arterial disease result in shorter hospital stays and the potential to save Medicare millions of dollars each year, a new study ... > full story -
Do You Hear What I Hear? Noise Exposure Surrounds Us
December 21, 2011 — Nine out of 10 city dwellers may have enough harmful noise exposure to risk hearing loss, and most of that exposure comes from leisure ... > full story -
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Benefits of New U.S. Air Quality Rules Greatly Outweigh Costs
December 21, 2011 — Scientists have written an expanded review of six new air quality regulations by the EPA. These include the first national standards in the U.S. for reducing dangerous emissions of mercury and other ... > full story
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