Credit: Credit: PHOTO CREDIT: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth Researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have been...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is widespread in China with 8.6 percent of the country's adult population - almost 100 million people -suffering from the...
Credit: Eduardo Afonso da Silva Junior Researchers working on the Ribeirão Preto campus of the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that...
Improving primary care quality is a national priority, but little is known about the extent to which small- to medium-size practices use quality improvement strategies...
In primary care practices, sustainability of performance improvements and ability to deliver continuity of care to patients can be adversely affected by major disruptive events,...
Practice facilitation is a promising approach to helping medical practices implement quality improvements. In a recently published study in the Annals of Family Medicine, Megan...
In a recently published study in the Annals of Family Medicine, Aimee English, MD, et al, describe a cluster-randomized trial evaluating the differential impact on...
In a recently published study in the Annals of Family Medicine, Kamal Henderson, MD, et al, assessed whether a practice's adaptive reserve and high leadership...
Michigan's Medicaid expansion was associated with more people receiving procedures for coronary artery disease without a negative effect on patient outcomes. That's according to a...
Credit: Casey Greene, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Cell Reports PHILADELPHIA - Matching unique genetic information from cancer patients' tumors with treatment...
People whose negative emotional responses to stress carry over to the following day are more likely to report health problems and physical limitations later in...
The human piece of a malaria infection puzzle has been revealed for the first time, solving a long-standing mystery. A protein displayed on the surface...
From pipelines to tankers, oil spills and their impact on the environment are a source of concern. These disasters occur on a regular basis, leading...
Credit: Hristov Research Group / Penn State An innovation that could have a huge impact on water quality problems in the United States, a system...
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, are one of the most widely used classes of antibiotics in the world. Though they've...
