Gout’s increasing prevalence along with recent treatment advances have prompted the American College of Rheumatology to issue new clinical guidelines for managing the painful inflammatory disease. Appearing today in Arthritis Care & Research, the guidelines are published in 2 parts…. Read More ›
Although the health care debate this election year is focused primarily on coverage for physician and hospital services, the growing cost of long-term care (LTC) is fast becoming a problem we can no longer ignore. With millions of baby boomers… Read More ›
President Obama’s federal health reform through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to significantly expand health insurance coverage. When it was initially passed in March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that 32 million uninsured Americans individuals would… Read More ›
Delayed, missed, and incorrect diagnoses occur up to 20% of the time and result in an estimated 40 000 to 80 000 deaths each year. Authors of a Viewpoint appearing today in JAMA say that to prevent avoidable injury and death, medical… Read More ›
Primary clinicians should routinely screen adults for risky or hazardous drinking behaviors and offer patients with problematic drinking habits a series of brief behavioral intervention sessions, according to a new draft recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force. A… Read More ›
Researchers have shown that an interaction between a genetic tendency toward obesity and high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages increases the likelihood of becoming obese. The researchers, whose findings appear online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, calculated body… Read More ›
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy… Read More ›
The election debate has focused on warring narratives about whose approach to reforming Medicare is more harmful, as Democrats and Republicans promote competing solutions to lower Medicare spending. But outside of Washington, there is general agreement on one way to… Read More ›
The once-promising belief that 2 retroviruses that cause leukemia in mice are potential causes of chronic fatigue syndrome in humans has been dismissed by findings from the most rigorous study to date on the link. In the study, published today… Read More ›
The rate of prostate cancer screening by testing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels among men age 75 years or older declined just 2 percentage points after a 2008 recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to discontinue such screening… Read More ›
