HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR PRESSURE?
(Source – blog.medicare.gov) About 1 in 3 U.S. adults have high blood pressure—and you could be one of them. If
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Health Care – General
Five healthy habits that could extend your life
A new study shows American women who followed five “healthy lifestyle factors” lived about 14 years longer than women who
Read MoreAmericans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden
(By Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR) Loneliness isn’t just a fleeting feeling, leaving us sad for a few hours to a
Read MoreFitbit and Google team up to bring user data to the EMR
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Fitbit and Google are putting their heads together to develop new consumer and
Read MoreHospitals Lure Diabetes Patients With Self-Care Courses, But Costs Can Weigh Heavily
(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) When a routine physical revealed mildly elevated blood-sugar levels, Michael Phillips was strongly
Read More‘Rapid Autopsy’ Programs Seek Clues To Cancer Within Hours Of Death
(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) After Keith Beck died of bile duct cancer last year, family members said
Read MoreMedicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online and
Read MoreA new way to ease the organ shortage: ‘Regifting’ kidneys used in previous transplants
(By Usha Lee McFarling for STAT) LOS ANGELES — Like many transplant surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Veale got frustrated seeing so
Read More3 ways to expand access to mental health care beyond adding more psychiatrists
(By Scott Breitinger for STAT) About once a shift, I see a patient who has been unnecessarily — and often
Read MoreStudy: Only 37% of physician care quality measures are valid
(By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review) Although U.S. physicians are evaluated on over 2,500 performance measures, less than 40
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