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Physician's Empathy Directly Associated With Positive Clinical Outcomes, a Large Study of Italian Diabetic Patients Confirms
September 10, 2012 — Patients of doctors who are more empathic have better outcomes and fewer complications, concludes a large, empirical study by researchers who evaluated relationships between physician empathy and ... > full story -
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Increased Off Label Antipsychotic Drug Use Found Among Children
September 10, 2012 — A national study shows increased use of powerful antipsychotic drugs to treat publicly insured children over the last decade. The study found a 62 percent increase in the number of Medicaid-enrolled ... > full story -
Health Care Spending in Last Five Years of Life Exceeds Total Assets for One Quarter of U.S. Medicare Population
September 8, 2012 — As many as a quarter of U.S. Medicare recipients spend more than the total value of their assets on out-of-pocket health care expenses during the last five years of their lives, according to ... > full story -
Alzheimer's Experts Provide Strategic Roadmap
September 7, 2012 — This week, a strategic roadmap to help to the United States' health care system cope with the impending public health crisis caused Alzheimer's disease and related dementia will be published. The ... > full story -
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Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
September 6, 2012 — America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of ... > full story -
More Grandparents Fill Caregiver Role
September 6, 2012 — Grandparents, an increasingly important source of child care in the United States, vary greatly in the kind of care they provide. A new study shows that 60 percent of grandparents provided some care ... > full story -
Advocacy Toolkit Launched to Halt the 'Runaway Train' of Cancer in Africa
September 6, 2012 — Cancer kills more than seven million people a year throughout the world. This is more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and African countries, which carry a large part of the burden, ... > full story -
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Alternatives to Medicare's Fee-for-Service Payment System Examined
September 5, 2012 — For years policymakers have attempted to replace Medicare's fee-for-service payment system with approaches that pay one price for an aggregation of services. The intent has been to reward providers ... > full story -
Call for a New Approach to Fighting Tuberculosis
September 5, 2012 — Each year, nearly two million people die from tuberculosis -- a treatable disease that has been brought under control in the United States, but continues to ravage other parts of the world. This ... > full story -
Common Hospital-Acquired Infection Rarely Reported in the Dataset Used to Implement Hospital Penalties
September 5, 2012 — Aiming to cut expenses and improve care, a 2008 Medicare policy stopped paying hospitals extra to treat some preventable, hospital-acquired conditions -- including urinary tract infections (UTIs) in ... > full story
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