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Journal of Medicine -When there are Americans whose Social Security checks are being garnished to pay off their outstanding student loan debt, then it is clear that the United States has a problem. And the rising number of seniors who haven’t paid off loans taken out decades earlier is only one of several reasons to be alarmed by a report on student loan debt released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in March.
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9 Major Physicians Groups Ask: Did You Really Order That Test?
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Journal of Medicine - If health care costs are ever to be brought under control, the nation’s doctors will have to play a leading role in eliminating unnecessary treatments. By some estimates, hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted this way every year. So it is highly encouraging that nine major physicians’ groups have identified 45 tests and procedures (five for each specialty) that are commonly used but have no proven benefit for many patients and sometimes cause more harm than good.
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Journal of Medicine - It was the type of conversation that Dr. Claire Trescott dreads: telling physicians that they are not cutting it.
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Journal of Medicine - As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: that the court could strike down the entire law.
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Journal of Medicine - It’s well established that moderate alcohol consumption may ward off heart disease. But even after a heart attack, an alcoholic drink a day may be good for a man’s health, a new study has found.
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Journal of Medicine - Spending on the advertising of brand-name prescription drugs on television — which not long ago was a fast-growing marketing venue for the pharmaceutical industry in the United States — has dropped more than 20 percent in the last five years.
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