Is using one of those walk-in-clinics like at a store the same as going to a doctor’s office or a hospital? According to recent research by the Rand Corp., the quality of the care you get is similar or better, but you’ll likely end up paying less at the retail clinic. Much less if your [...]
A new study shows that breast cancer patients who show even traces of cancer in their lymph nodes are more likely to survive with more aggressive treatment.
Health care reform is moving again, but many experts still question whether in the end, it will be real reform that encourages higher quality care and lowers overall costs. The House Energy and Commerce Committee finally voted and approved the health care reform bill that had been stalled as moderate democrats objected to some of [...]
President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to pass health care reform “this year,” and not in five or ten years, according to The Wall Street Journal’s live blogging from the President’s recent Town Hall Meeting on health care. The event occurred at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.. Members of the public also sent [...]
An article in The New York Times today charges that that a “rogue cancer unit” at the veterans hospital in Philadelphia seriously botched 92 out of 116 procedures to treat prostate cancer. Dr. Gary D. Kao performed almost all of the botched procedures, which took place between 2002 and mid-2008, when the “problems” began to [...]
