Showing posts with label The New England Journal of Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The New England Journal of Medicine. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2013

Common Knee Surgery Does Very Little for Some, Study Suggests

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A popular surgical procedure worked no better than fake operations in helping people with one type of common knee problem, suggesting that...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear

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Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from www.nejm.org Background Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy is one of the most com...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

You may not be better off after knee surgery

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Today's post is shared from cnn.com  ( CNN ) -- Patients who underwent simulated knee surgery fared just as well as those who got the...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Saving Academic Medicine from Obsolescence

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Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from blogs.hbr.org by Benjamin P. Sachs, Ralph Maurer, Steven A. Wartman and Marc J. Kahn...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

A Remedy for Fragmented Hospital Care

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Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from blogs.hbr.org Fragmented hospital care has been associated with higher hospital mo...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Professionalism and Caring for Medicaid Patients — The 5% Commitment?

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Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from www.nejm.org Interview with Prof . Sara Rosenbaum on the health care safety ne...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It

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Medical costs approximate the largest majority of costs in workers' compensation claims. Today's post was shared by NEJM and com...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Worrisome or not? Lung nodules identified on initial LDCT lung cancer screening

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Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from blogs.nejm.org Long the domain of astrologers and tarot card readers , predi...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Vermont Single Payer System Called the Dawn of A New Era

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The proposed state based Vermont Single-Payer health care  system, that would embrace workers' compensation medical care, is gaining mo...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Daylight Savings Time Switch May be Hazardous to Your Health

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Image via Wikipedia The semi-annual tradition of changing the clock an hour ahead and an hour back has been reported to result in a high in...