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New research suggests weight training for two years significantly improves the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease compared to other forms of exercise such as stretching and balance exercises.
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Hard hit by one of the worst recessions in nearly a century, hundreds of thousands of Californians lost insurance coverage across the state as employers shed jobs and the health plans that came with those jobs, according to a report from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research.
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When an interdisciplinary team including patient access, insurance verification, and radiology personnel was formed to reduce claims denials, "realizing where denials are coming from was definitely our first step," reports Brian A. Todd, CHAM, manager of patient access staff development and training at Lourdes Health System in Camden, NJ.
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A proactive approach to engage at-risk members before they have an adverse medical event is paying off for CareFirst BlueCross and Blue Shield, a Baltimore-based health plan.
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The assessment tool used by federal government programs to measure whether a community health center is functioning as a "medical home" was developed by the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
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A new study looks at an intriguing strategy for improving study subjects' understanding and knowledge of clinical research. After subjects finished participating in the study, they were given a "debriefing" statement that explained more fully what the study was about and how it would contribute to scientific knowledge.
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Thousands more American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could obtain them if physicians would move past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists, according to a new study1 by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their laboratory and clinical experiments.
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When investigators seek an exception from informed consent (EFIC) for emergency research, they must show that they have engaged in community consultation and public disclosure, informing the public that they might encounter an experimental intervention while being treated in an emergency setting.
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The importance and potential benefits of palliative care to ease suffering and improve quality of life for patients being treated in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has received increasing recognition but is not without significant challenges, as discussed in a roundtable discussion in a recent issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
