More than 26 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2006, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
CIGNA HealthCare announced that it has signed contracts with three major Washington providers, Swedish Medical Center, MultiCare Health System and Providence Health System.
Health Protection Agency HPA, UK confirms that a review of patients’ case notes in hospitals across England and Scotland has been carried out.
A new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) quantifies the level of demand for disability support services now and in the future, and shows that the number of people aged under 65 with a profound or severe limitation in basic daily activities is projected to increase to over 750,000 people by 2010.
The US California Assembly approved a bill that would bring health insurers in line with other kinds of insurance in California, requiring companies to defend and get permission for increases in their premiums.
Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are known as a resource for accelerating the translation of research into practice and performing research relevant to everyday primary care.
Poor glucose control is often attributed to clinical inertia: the recognition of a problem by the physician, but failing to act.
Some patients with advanced non?small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have slightly higher survival rates when treated with the chemotherapy drug cisplatin than another platinum-based drug, carboplatin, according to a study in the June 6 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Taking folic acid supplements does not reduce the risk of developing precancerous tumors in the colon and may even increase the risk, a new study has found.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a revision to the multimedia educational physicians? tool kit to help provide earlier diagnosis, management and appropriate referral for patients with concussions.