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Hackers are increasingly targeting hospitals

Hospitals Need to Be Prepared for Ransomware Attacks

Medical information a vulnerable target for those planning ransomware attacks, doctor warns
For patients with ovarian cancer

New VTE Often Occurs During Chemo in Ovarian Cancer

Most cases of venous thromboembolism occurred during neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy
Medicaid patients have slightly longer waits at medical appointments than those with private insurance

Outpatient Wait Times Are Longer for Medicaid Recipients

Researchers suggest lag time might be due to providers having larger caseloads
An underlying mechanism has been identified that could eventually lead to the first drug therapy for lymphedema

Leukotriene B4 Is Promising Drug Target for Tx of Lymphedema

Ketoprofen prevents tissue injury, fluid build-up by blocking leukotriene B4, researchers say
High-price practices have higher scores on certain measures of care coordination and management

Practice Prices Linked to Some Measures of Care Coordination

But no differences in overall care ratings, receipt of preventive services, acute care use
Arthroscopic surgery should rarely be used to treat degenerative knee disease

Arthroscopy for Degenerative Knees Deemed Seldom Effective

Widely used procedure won't help arthritic degeneration, according to new recommendation
From 2001 to 2010

Postmarket Safety Events for 32 Percent of Novel Therapeutics

Thirty-two percent of 222 FDA approved novel therapeutics from 2001 to 2010 were affected
Increases in insurance coverage from 2008 to 2014 were not associated with worse access to care for continuously insured adults

Increases in Rates of Insured Don’t Harm Continuously Insured

Continuously insured adults do not have worse access to care with increases in cover from '08 to '14
Patients who travel to an academic medical center to undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer live a few months longer than those who choose to have their operation at a hospital closer to home

Traveling to Academic Hospital May Be Best for Pancreatic Cancer

Academic medical centers that perform more tumor surgeries have better patient outcomes
An evidence-based medicine course has some positive effect on medical student critical thinking

Evidence-Based Medicine Course Beneficial for Critical Thinking

Significant mean differences in confidence, inquisitiveness, overall score for undergrads