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Report:Number of U.S. primary care MDs falls
A new study underscores the point that the number of U.S. doctors specializing in primary care is falling, though stats suggest that the gap is being covered by doctors who move here from other... Read more...
Partnership hopes to improve minority healthcare
HHS and the National Business Group on Health are partnering in a two-year project designed to cut racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. The partnership, which is getting initial funding of... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals improving informed consent process
Increasingly, U.S. hospitals have begun to improve their process for obtaining informed consent from patients, in part due to research concluding that most patients don't read consent forms (or... Read more...
Health disparities narrowing for minority children
Over the past two decades, black and Hispanic children have made significant gains in their health status which have narrowed the disparities between themselves and white children, according to a new... Read more...
Patients afraid to challenge surgeons
In theory, patients should ask surgeons some probing questions prior to getting their procedure done, including what success rate they have and how many procedures they've performed, most safety... Read more...
MD hospitals budget $135M for more nurses
Hoping to head off a staggering nursing shortage barreling down on the state, Maryland's hospitals have set plans to spend $135 million to grow the number of nursing students and faculty in the state... Read more...
Trend: How TX is coping with nursing instructor shortage
In Texas, it's not just the nursing shortage--there's an acute nursing instructor shortage underway as well. To address this problem, nursing schools there are getting creative, instituting Web-based... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Big death gap between high, low-ranked hospitals
Everyone knows that there's a big gap between the best- and worst-performing organizations in any industry, but this is a striking one. In this case, a new study has found a whopping gap in Medicare... Read more...
MA nursing hires climb in 2006
Massachusetts hospitals made big gains in nurse recruitment last year, according to a new survey by the state's hospital association. According to the Massachusetts Hospital Association survey,... Read more...
States say insurer uses unfair practices
The state of Massachusetts is the latest to investigate health insurer HealthMarkets, contending that the company engaged in unfair business practices and deceived consumers by selling policies which... Read more...
