During the last week in March, much of the country was riveted by 3 days of Supreme Court arguments in the constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ...

Hospital readmissions are receiving increasing attention as a largely correctable source of poor quality of care and excessive spending. According to a 2009 study, nearly 20% of Medicare ...

© 2008 Canadian Medical Association Demasiado medicamento Alan Cassels BA MPA + Afiliaciones de los autores Victoria, BC Sobretratados: ¿Por qué demasiada medicina ...

Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will examine the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),1 potentially producing a landmark decision. For most cases, the Supreme Court ...

BBC Mundo Miércoles, 14 de marzo de 2012 India autorizó la producción del medicamento genérico a menor precio. Nexavar es un medicamento utilizado para combatir ...

Objetivo Catalunya y Euskadi recibieron durante el siglo xx importantes contingentes de inmigración del resto de España. El objetivo es analizar las desigualdades en salud ...

The largest U.S. health insurer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has set a triple aim: better care for individuals, better health for populations, and lower ...

RESUMEN INTRODUCCIÓN El hospital de día es una alternativa a la hospitalización, que mejora la accesibilidad y el confort del paciente, evitando ingresos. No obstante, la ...

The promise of nearly universal health insurance coverage embodied in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has meaning in part because it is tied to a minimum set of covered services called essential ...

In his memoir It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong argues that winning the world's greatest bike race does not depend in the ...

The parties who have brought legal challenges to the Accountable Care Act's (ACA's) individual mandate to obtain health insurance claim that the Constitution's Commerce Clause ...

The recent release of the regulations that will govern the early years of Medicare's implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) provides an important moment to reflect on the ...

On October 3, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the consolidated Douglas cases (Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Douglas v. California Pharmacists ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The scoring system government agencies use to rate nursing home quality does not provide an adequate evaluation because they do not take into account the degree of cognitive ...

International Health World citizen number 7 billion is less likely to die from infectious diseases like measles or even AIDS, and more likely to contract diabetes or other non-communicable ...