AHIP: Medicare Advantage Cuts Harm Seniors
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Health insurers are pushing back against planned cuts in funds flowing to Medicare Advantage plans by framing the cuts as harmful to seniors. …read more
New corneal layer important for intraocular pressure maintenance
UK researchers have found that a newly discovered layer of the human eye is an important part of the structural tissue that helps to maintain intraocular pressure and thus may…
Further support for hippocampal volume as psychosis biomarker
Findings from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes provide further evidence that reduced hippocampal volume is a consistent feature of schizophrenia. …read more
Advanced paternal age effects extend to several psychiatric disorders
The effect of advanced paternal age at childbearing on the psychiatric morbidity risk of their children extends to several psychiatric disorders and particularly bipolar disorder, findings from a sibling-comparison study…
CMS: More 'Meaningful Use' Exemptions Coming
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) — Some healthcare providers struggling to meet the second stage of the incentive program for electronic health records may receive a bit of relief, a federal health…
5 Tips on Meeting 'Meaningful Use' Standards
(MedPage Today) — MedPage Today spoke to several EHR experts during this week’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference in Orlando on tools providers can use to help…
Single GME Pathway for DOs and MDs
(MedPage Today) — A unified, single-system graduate medical education (GME) accreditation for allopathic and osteopathic physicians — MDs and DOs — will launch 2015. …read more
Inflammation May Be PTSD Risk Factor (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammation marker, were seen in soldiers who later developed post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers said. …read more
Stroke Rounds: Are Oldest Patients Getting Too Many Drugs? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — Too many healthy people in their 80s and older are being treated with statins and antihypertensives for stroke prevention, according to a perspective in Evidence-Based Medicine. …read…
Cancer Vaccine Could Use Immune System to Fight Tumors
CINCINNATI—Cincinnati Cancer Center (CCC) and UC Cancer Institute researchers have found that a vaccine, targeting tumors that produce a certain protein and receptor responsible for communication between cells and the…