Direct Primary Care Is Emerging Business Model
Doctors are bypassing insurance companies in an offshoot of concierge medicine
Detecting, Isolating C. difficile Carriers Beneficial
Strategy linked to decrease in the incidence of health care-associated C. difficile infection
Saxagliptin, Sitagliptin Don’t Up Hospitalized Heart Failure
No increased risk for new users of saxagliptin, sitagliptin versus other antihyperglycemic agents
Detergent Packets a Growing Poison Danger to Children
Experts say parents of young children should not have these products in the home
Higher Arsenic Levels Detected in Infants Fed Rice-Based Cereals
Levels in infants who frequently ate baby rice cereal more than three times that of non-rice eaters
Pharmacists Can Manage Some Chronic Conditions Effectively
New legislation would establish pharmacists as health care providers
Coronary Heart Disease Risk Up for Women Working Night Shifts
But researchers found that the effect waned after nurses stopped working odd hours
Influenza Vaccination Timing Appears to Affect Efficacy
Vaccination seems to provide greater immune response in the morning than in the afternoon
Severe Childhood Obesity Still on the Rise in the United States
Treatment for these 4.5 million children is urgently needed
Pathogen Reduction System Prevents Malaria Via Transfusion
Plasmodium inactivation in whole blood reduces incidence of transfusion-transmitted malaria
