by Research Team | Jan 23, 2015 | Health News
Medicare’s online Dialysis Facility Compare already included quality information such as whether patient death and hospitalization rates were higher than expected. But it says that information wasn’t always easy for patients to understand.
by Research Team | Jan 23, 2015 | Health News
Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin would be required to undergo drug testing and could be limited in how long they can receive benefits under measures proposed Thursday by Gov. Scott Walker, who is positioning himself as a reformer as he eyes a 2016 presidential run....
by Research Team | Jan 23, 2015 | Health News
“At present, we have little concept of ‘early’ osteoarthritis and often only see people when they have significant, longstanding pain and loss of function,” research leader Philip Conaghan, a professor of musculoskeletal medicine at the...
by Research Team | Jan 22, 2015 | Health News
Hospitals in a northeastern Indiana county that includes Fort Wayne have lifted visitor restrictions imposed last month amid a surge in influenza cases. Allen County’s city-county health department said Tuesday the county’s hospitals have all lifted...
by Research Team | Jan 22, 2015 | Health News
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is out to convince an appellate court to revive his lawsuit challenging part of the federal health care overhaul. Johnson sued last year over a requirement that congressional members and their employees seek government-subsidized health...
