Spending: Retro Medicine: Doctors Making House Calls
677034
A new kind of medical practice is flourishing nationwide that offers to go to where the patients are â whether a home, an office or a hotel.
553269
GPs often prescribe the latest, most expensive antibiotics, when better alternatives are available, research suggests.
56048
Let the patient beware. Going outside your insurerâs network of preferred doctors or hospitals could be more hazardous to your financial health than you suspected.
649325
New research from a survey conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive "placebo" pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell them they're getting a real drug.
129385
A new body will be set up to coordinate health research, but doctors fear it could lead to a cut in the budget.
702757
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care should ask for its money back. It hired consultants to identify cost savings in the hospitals.
69453
When Dr. Eric Matteson arrived at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on Thursday morning, there was already a pile of messages for him and the phones were ringing off the hook.
74552
Too much personal talk by doctors can be bad medicine, according to a study published on Monday in which U.S. researchers sent actors posing as new patients to see doctors in secretly recorded visits.
597743
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors and patients alike need to do more to clear the air regarding high prescription drug costs and their impact on medication use, according to new research.
457922
Several local family-practice doctors spent much of Tuesday fielding telephone calls and questions about two widely used pain relievers that might - or might not - raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
166630
The attorney general is looking into whether insurers forced patients to overpay for out-of-network doctors.
181900
Science & environment: Connecting doctors with patients via video is not new - but is now the time for it finally to take off?
231198
DOCTORS are promoting health supplements during consultations and in talks held at their homes or clinics. They range from general practitioners (GPs) and specialists in private practice, to doctors in public and private hospitals.
41548
For some patients, it can be difficult to determine how much treatment is just too much.
2991
After a shaky start, Massachusetts doctors are beginning to embrace a new way of getting medications to their patients: e-prescribing.
104715
There are many other treatment options for people with arthritis, and physicians are considering them patient by patient. Washington -- Physicians are pulling out their risk-versus-benefit calculators once
601393
NASA -- The days of doctors making house calls may seem like ancient history for most patients in North America, but in October, three astronauts and a Canadian doctor will test the latest concepts in long-distance house calls using a unique underwater laboratory.     The ability to conduct long-distance health care such as telemonitoring and telerobotic surgery could be key to maintaining the wellness of future spacefarers and responding to medical emergencies on the International Space Station, the moon or Mars...