May 16, 2012
Daily Briefing
Learn how Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center implemented a program to help high-risk, underinsured patients get the primary and preventive care they need and deter inappropriate trips to the ED.
May 16, 2012
Daily Briefing
Is "internet shopping" an addiction? How about gambling? Proposed changes to the American Psychiatric Association's influential diagnostic manual could reclassify as many as 20 million more U.S. residents as addicts.
May 16, 2012
Daily Briefing
Although few medical malpractice claims make their way to a jury trial, physicians win 79.6% of those that do, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
May 16, 2012
Daily Briefing
A federal judge this week struck down a planned expansion of union formation powers—an expansion opposed by the American Hospital Association—on procedural grounds.
May 16, 2012
Daily Briefing
Researchers at North Shore-LIJ Health System have identified a new public health challenge: the nation's growing obesity problem may be hindering organ donation, too.
