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A new analysis has found that allowing full access to personal medical records increases satisfaction without increasing anxiety in newly diagnosed cancer patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that providing accurate information to patients through medical records can be a beneficial complement to verbal communication with their physicians.
UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that finds "extraordinary price increases" for brand-name drug products from 2000 – 2008 was largely fueled by the "lack of therapeutically equivalent drugs" and "limited competition," underscores the need for policymakers to promote policies in health reform which increase competition and lower costs, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today.
Alfred O. Bonati, M.D., internationally known orthopedic surgeon and founder of The Bonati Spine Institute, reports that, in his experience, the failure rates for open back surgery, as recently reported by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, are not out of line.
General Motors and the United Auto Workers are close to finalizing a deal that would reduce the automaker's cash obligation to a retiree health care trust fund, according to people with knowledge of the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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