medicine
Hospital night shifts severely lacking
The differences between being treated at a hospital at night and during the day often can be daunting, the Wall Street Journal's health blog points out. Not only is the quality care not as high... Read more...
Cleveland Clinic will pay tuition for med school students
Following a practice that is growing increasingly common, the Cleveland Clinic says that it plans to pay the entire tuition bill for the 32 students entering its medical education program later this... Read more...
Study: Acute shortage of adult primary care MDs coming
A new study appearing in the journal Health Affairs attaches some numbers to a problem we all see coming--the growing U.S. shortage of primary care physicians. According to the study, by 2025 the... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Tool calculates ROI on quality programs; Doctors resist e-mailing patients; and much more...
> A new tool could help health plans and providers demonstrate the return on investment from quality improvement. Read more...
Trend: Young MDs seek new practice options
Historically, doctors in training have been encouraged to see medicine as their entire life, not just something they do--and to make themselves available around the clock for patient care. But this... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: U of Miami suffers massive patient data loss; Loyola U sets $1B strategic plan; and much more...
> The University of Miami School of Medicine has lost data backup tapes containing data on 2.1 million patients. Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Some U.S. populations see life expectancy drop
While life expectancy has generally been going up in the U.S., it's declining in some regions of the U.S., according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine. While life expectancy rose by seven... Read more...
State med board disciplinary action numbers fall again
Once again, the number of disciplinary actions taken against healthcare professionals by state boards of medicine has fallen, according to a new report by the Federation of State Medical Boards. In... Read more...
Study: Shorter hospitalizations not always best
A new study has drawn a conclusion that flies in the face of the core assumptions most planners make about healthcare. At least for some patients, shorter hospital stays aren't better, according to... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: NEJM issues correction over tobacco ties to cancer study
Editors at the venerable New England Journal of Medicine must be a bit embarrassed this week, having had to issue a correction admitting that it should have disclosed that a lung-cancer detection... Read more...
