General Healthcare News
Next Generation of Retirees May Bankrupt System Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was born New Year's Day 1946, at one second past midnight, making her the first baby of a new generation. Raised on "Howdy Doody" and hula hoops, she danced on...
A primary mystery puzzling neuroscientists -- where in the brain lies intelligence? -- just may have a unified answer.In a review of 37 imaging studies related to intelligence, including their own, Richard Haier of the University of California,...
The quality of sound, reproducibility for computer analysis and file-sharing potential of MP3 recordings may nudge the doctor's stethoscope out of favour, according to Canadian researchers presenting here at the Annual Congress of the European...
USA Today (9/6, Donaghue) reports that "a 2003 Journal of the American Medical Association review of autopsy studies" found that "doctors misdiagnose 8 percent to 24 percent of the time." To combat this problem, some are...
BCBS settling parties agree to pay out more than $131 million; Oct. 19 is key deadline Physicians who provided covered services to any patient enrolled in or covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans at any time between May 22, 1999, and...
HealthDay (9/18, Reinberg) reports, "French surgeons report removing a gallbladder through a woman's vagina, joining a handful of surgeons around the world who are trying the novel technique." So far, two similar operations have...
