Nearly 50 percent of the first graduating class of Marian University's medical school have chosen to practice primary care in Indiana, a state with a shortage of PCPs, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Indiana, New York, and Texas.
Many people consider deteriorating eyesight with age—known as presbyopia—to be a fact of life. But research suggests that certain brain training games might help keep it at bay, Austin Frakt writes for the New York Times' "The Upshot."
The Leapfrog Group in its latest Hospital Safety Scores awarded nearly 800 hospitals an "A" grade for safety—but gave more than 1,100 organizations a grade of "C" or below.
Providers are struggling to stay emotionally engaged in patient care under the ever-increasing weight of financial expectations, but these changes to culture and governance can help you stay on track.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in a new draft statement recommends that men ages 55 to 69 and their physicians decide whether the men should receive routine prostate-specific antigen.
According to SSM Health officials, the "pharmacy concierge" program over the last two years has saved insured patients about $60 to $70 per month and has provided about $6 million in no-cost medication to uninsured patients.
The Trump administration is pushing back on media reports that HHS would continue to fund the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing subsidies while a lawsuit challenging the payments continues.
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