Health Guide

<![CDATA[ Consolidation among hospitals and health insurers has led to higher prices, and the government needs to take action to ensure more competition, according to witnesses who testified Sept. 9 to the House Ways and […]

<![CDATA[ Qualitest Pharmaceuticals is recalling multiple lots of birth control pills because of a packaging error that may interfere with proper dosing and result in unintentional pregnancy. The packaging error caused blisters to be rotated

<![CDATA[ As advances in genomic research propel the field of diabetes toward novel approaches for prevention and management, endocrinologists and researchers are speculating about the effect that genetic information will have on the diabetes epidemic.

<![CDATA[ People often fail to ask their doctors questions that could lead to fewer medical errors and better outcomes—and doctors don’t routinely encourage them to do so. That’s despite years of efforts to improve doctor-patient

<![CDATA[ Big pharmaceutical firms paid doctors and other health-care providers in Virginia more than $13 million from 2009 to earlier this year, according to a searchable, Web-based database compiled by the investigative journalism group ProPublica.

<![CDATA[ *Routine screening for depression in primary care patients has not been shown to be beneficial or an effective use of scarce health care resources, which would be better focused on providing more consistent treatment

<![CDATA[ An apple a day may help keep the doctor away, for real. It turns out that apples are one of several fruits and vegetables with a white flesh that may help protect you from

<![CDATA[ Some doctors, hospitals and medical groups are marketing heart scans to us over 60 folks with the claim that they could save our lives. However, Consumer Reports and many medical experts tell us that

<![CDATA[ In an Australian first, researchers from the University’s Robinson Institute are using magnetic stimulators to jump start the brain after a stroke and repair swallowing functions which break down in more than 50% of

<![CDATA[ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have teamed up on a new initiative aimed at boosting patient engagement