Day: May 7, 2012

In September, I was recruited to help out with a local charity’s orthopedic mission to El Salvador. The Greater Philadelphia chapter of Healing the Children has been sending a team of orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, anesthetists and nurses to El Salvador…

Despite the decrease observed in visits to the emergency department among patients satisfied with their health care use, spending and overall outcomes, patient satisfaction was associated with increased inpatient use, mortality and drug expenditures. The findings were published in Archives…

James C. Russ, CO, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, died on Febuary 25 at the age of 77 years of a heart attack at his home in Glenview, Ill. Russ spent more than 50 years…

Disputes are a fact of life, and in the practice of medicine, with its inherent uncertainty, disputes can sometimes manifest as medical negligence lawsuits. Some commentators believe that there are too many lawsuits related to claims of medical malpractice, and…

Companies that make a previously patented innovation accessible to competitors by free licensing may ultimately increase their overall likelihood of improving on the breakthrough, while also raising profits for the original innovator and market welfare, according to a study by…

Medicare demonstrations designed to improve health care quality and efficiency have largely failed to result in savings, according to the results of investigations summarized in a Congressional Budget Office brief. In the brief, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted an…

The International Paralympic Committee announced that two medal events in Para-Snowboard will be included in the Alpine Skiing Program at the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. This is the first time that Para-Snowboard will be included in the Paralympics,…

Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus better, according to a study by University of California, Irvine and US Army researchers. “We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask…