Why Steve Jobs Should Run Healthcare!

New terms are being bantered about in healthcare. One is the accountable care organization. The idea is that a group of providers – primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals – would come together and be responsible for the cost and quality of care for a given population. In theory, and in...

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Use Proper Dosing Instruments When Taking Medications

Koert van Ittersum, an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Brian Wansink of Cornell University published a letter in the Jan. 5 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine citing new research that suggests that you should steer clear of using ordinary spoons when taking or giving liquid...

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Centralized Clinical Trials Site Launched by Medpedia

The Medpedia Project has announced the launching of Medpedia Clinical Trials, a platform for patients and physicians to receive information about the thousands of clinical trials that are in process or about to begin. Unlike other platforms Medpedia allows clinical trial information to be fed automatically to users. So instead...

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Prevent Frailty in Later Life By Starting Healthy Habits Now

Dr. Linda P. Fried, dean and DeLamar professor of public health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City and her research team published a study in the Journals of Gerontology Series A that found that three or more bodily systems functioning at abnormal levels was...

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Semantic Memory Test Could Help Identify Alzheimer’s

Researchers at the University of Montreal studied a group of 117 healthy seniors aged 60 to 91 who were shown pictures of 30 celebrities and asked to recall details, such as name, profession, nationality and biographical information. Researchers found that the ability to remember a subject’s name decreases over time...

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