Doctors Develop Innovative Ways to Lower Costs
By Doctors Accountable Care Organization, Special for USDR Doctors Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is nearing the end of its third...
The Concern of Brittle Type 1 Diabetes
By Brittle Diabetes Foundation, Special for USDR Brittle Type 1 Diabetes (BT1D) is listed by the National Institutes of Health...
Cracking Down on Pressure Ulcers
By NJHA, Special for USDR Aging, bed-bound patients are vulnerable to skin injuries known as pressure ulcers where the...
Solving the Physician Shortage
By AOA, Special for USDR More than 1,000 of the nation's 129,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) and medical students marched to...
What’s Killing 1.7 Million Americans a Year
By Garden Fresh Media, Special for USDR Why are Americans so sick? Who's responsible for feeding us information about what...
Guidelines for Acute Leukemia Patients
By College of American Pathologists, Special for USDR The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH)...
The Reason behind “Surprise” Medical Bills
By ACEP, Special for USDR Health insurance companies are ignoring a real solution to "surprise" medical bills and misleading their...
TrumpCare is changing the Face of Healthcare
By VERTESS, Special for USDR At this point, two things are certain about TrumpCare: it's going to happen and...
Massachusetts Hospital Tests New Payment Method
By Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Special for USDR A new study led by researchers from Harvard Medical School shows...
America Needs More Family Physicians
By The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Special for USDR For more than a decade, the medical industry...
Improving America’s Skin Health
By Unilever, Special for USDR Access to quality and comprehensive health care is frequently discussed in the U.S., especially as demand...
Election to be Decisive for American Medicine
By AAPS, Special for USDR This election will be decisive for the direction of American medicine, states the Association of American...
Documentary features game-changing diabetes breakthrough that could help thousands
By Journey to a Miracle, Special for USDR Thousands of Americans with diabetes are taking insulin shots and don't need to....
Zeroing in on Zika
By University of Miami, Special for USDR Mosquito-borne transmission of the Zika virus appeared inSouth Florida just recently, but at the...
Seniors with More Continuity of Care Use the ER Less
By ACEP, Special for USDR Seniors with traditional Medicare coverage who have more continuity of care – defined as consistently seeing...
63% of Hospitals Now Utilizing Physician Incentive Plans
By USDR A whole range of incentives are successfully used throughout industries such as businesses, the government, and even...
Call to End Opioid Abuse
By Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, Special for USDR U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, brought his Turn the...
Fitness Trackers Potential Life Savers?
By ACEP, Special for USDR Emergency physicians used a patient's personal activity tracker and smartphone to identify the time his...
New Study Uncovers Brokenness of American Health System
By Finn Partners, Special for USDR The fragmented U.S. healthcare system forces consumers to navigate medical care on their own...
A Shocking 53% of Consumers Cannot Access Electronic Health Data
By HealthMine, Special for USDR Despite this week's announcement about a ten million dollar initiative to give consumers direct access...
Obamacare has not Solved Emergency Room Over Use Crisis
By ACEP, Special for USDR Three-quarters of emergency physicians report that emergency visits are going up, according to a...
The Devaluation of the Doctor and Its Effect on the American People
By Dr. Elaina George, Special for USDR The announcement by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to...
Vermont Proves Single Payer Healthcare Does Not Work
By AAPS, Special for USDR. Gov. Peter Shumlin announced that he will not pursue a single payer health care...
ObamaCare Equals Fraud and Incompetence, Doctor Writes
By USDR According to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the enrollment system for the Affordable...
Liberal Environmental Groups Square off Against Obama's NRC Commissioner
By USDR Nearly three dozen leading national and local groups – including Friends of the Earth,...
The Table Salt Controversy
By USDR Over the last week, well-meaning, educated people including physicians and nurses have approached heart surgeon Dr. Surender...
Nation's Grade Drops to a Dismal D+ for Failure to Support Emergency Patients
By USDR Emergency physicians today sounded a warning that the continuing failure of state and national policies is...
Americans Overwhelmingly Prefer Physicians For Their Medical Care
By USDR Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) prefer physicians over non-physicians for their medical care Nine in ten (90...