HealthLeadersMedia.com | October 18 - Pharmacists might soon be leaving the confines of their drug-filled fortresses to work alongside primary care physicians. Two studies indicate that adding pharmacists to the primary care team for joint care management increases medical benefits.
In an American Diabetes Association report,...
ModernHealthcare.com | October 15 - Consumer prices for hospital services spikes 1.8% in September, the largest one-month jump since the Bureau of Labor Statistics first gathered comparable data in January 1997. The figures are seasonally adjusted. The surge comes two months after the bureau reported...
The Washington Post | October 15 - A federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit brought by 20 states challenging the health-care overhaul law can move forward.
The decision by Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida to reject...
The Wall Street Journal | October 15 - Earlier in the decade, growth in the frequency of claims declined for several years in a row, down to a 1.81% increase for incidents occurring in 2006. The pace has now ticked up for the past three...
The Wall Street Journal | October 15 - Computerized patient records could be used to improve lax reporting of serious drug side effects, the results of a small study suggest.
The study, at Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's hospitals in Boston and sponsored by Pfizer...
