Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm?s overall health-care costs, according to a study published recently in Health Affairs by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.
On tuesday, the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, US released the plan recommending the elimination of about 20 hospitals through closings, mergers and conversions to other uses. After this, there are mixed reaction for this consolidation plan in US.
A federal plan to vaccinate hospital healthcare workers against a threat of smallpox fell short on several levels, according to the first metric analysis of the prophylactic health program. Results of the Temple University study raise troubling questions about future preparedness against possible outbreaks of avian flu or SARS.
People with auto-immune conditions like MS, arthritis and lupus can benefit from low impact aerobic exercise — including walking and cycling — that increases in intensity, duration and frequency. A review of studies between 1987 and 2006 shows that 12-week programmes that involved exercising for 30 to 60 minutes, three times a week, yielded the most effective results.
More people die from HIV/Aids every month than in the Indian Ocean tsunami, says Professor Robert Gallo, who helped identify the HIV/AIDS virus nearly 25 years ago, said the Asian tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people.
To control soaring medical costs, New York state must shut nine hospitals and reorganize another 48 centers to save $1.5 billion a year while also improving the quality of care, a reform commission proposed on Tuesday.
Critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation in intensive care units often feel high levels of frustration in communicating their needs to their caregivers – but use of a communication board can change that, a new UCLA study has found.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital compared the effects of a variety of immunosuppressive agents on cardiovascular events in a large sample of RA patients.
A cadre of world-renowned scientists working in the most promising areas of cancer research have come together to work as a team at one institution ? Memorial Health ? to accelerate findings for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Global health inequalities are substantial, growing and influenced by economic, social and health-sector variables as well as geography, a study concludes in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.