Medicine & Business

Dr. Michael Kitchell initially welcomed the federal government’s new quality incentives for doctors. His medical group in Iowa has always scored better than most in ...

Whether a patient is in the hospital for an organ transplant, an appendectomy or to have a baby, one complaint is common: the gown. You ...

By Laura Little The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the payment rates for physician groups participating in the first round of ...

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay News) — Nearly all emergency room doctors surveyed order pricey MRIs or CT scans their patients may not need, mainly because ...

  Women outnumber men in the nursing profession by more than 10 to 1. But men still earn more, a new study finds. The report in this ...

  (HealthDay News) — New lab tests on Colorado’s legal marijuana suggest that the state’s weed supply is more potent than ever, and also a ...

(HealthDay News) — The expected shortfall of physicians is projected to reach about 46,000 to 90,000 by 2025, according to a study conducted by IHS ...

Apple introduced new software that will turn every iPhone into a sophisticated medical diagnostic tool.  ResearchKit will allow researchers to greatly expand every medical trial ...

(HealthDay News) — Doctors in the United States are seeing more infants born addicted to narcotic painkillers — a problem highlighted by a new Florida-based ...

Technology entrepreneur Jonathan Bush says he was recently watching a patient move from a hospital to a nursing home. The patient’s information was in an ...