Healthcare

Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...

Palliative Care

Palliative care is the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is param...

Ulcer care

Skin Care

Postresuscitative Care

Pull-Through Programs Critical for Maintaining Demand for Pharmaceutical Products on Managed Care Formularies

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's pharmaceutical marketplace, companies not only have to fight to win product placement on Managed Care formularies but also to "pull th...

Video: Lat pull-down with weight machine

The lat pull-down targets the side of the chest wall. See how it's done.

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - pull-ups, Pi Day, pesticides, quasars, alien planet, and more.

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Germany's RAG Threatens to Pull Evonik IPO

The owners of German chemicals firm Evonik may pull the plug on an initial public offering (IPO) which, when announced, was billed as Europe's biggest flotation in more than a year.

Kansas move to Medicaid managed care draws advice, skeptics

Kansas officials readying a move to managed care in their Medicaid program are getting an earful from a host of sources, including other state leaders who have instituted managed care.

California Will Shift 456,000 Low Income Seniors Into Managed Care

has taken the idea of managed care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities to a whole new level. Under an agreement with the Obama Administration announced last week, the state will begin...

The Mechanics of the Pull-Up (and Why Women Can Absolutely Do Them)

As a former rock climbing instructor, I have seen many contorted struggles to raise a chin over a bar. The pull-up for many is a sort of "test piece" of fitness--an indicator of athletic prowess--that...

Germany's RAG threatens to pull plug on Evonik IPO

FRANKFURT, June 10 (Reuters) - The owners of German chemicals firm Evonik may pull the plug on what could have otherwise been Europe's largest initial public offering in more than a year.

Responding to financial pressures. The effect of managed care on hospitals' provision of charity care.

Healthcare financing and insurance is changing everywhere. We want to understand the impact that financial pressures can have for the uninsured in advanced economies. To do so we focus on analyzing th...

Quality compensation programs: are they worth all the hype? A comparison of outcomes within a medicare advantage heart failure population.

Quality compensation programs (QCPs), also known as pay-for-performance programs, are becoming more common within managed care entities. QCPs are believed to yield better patient outcomes, yet the pro...

Contribution of the Cerebellum to the Coupling of Grip Force and Pull Force During an Isometric Precision Grip Task.

This study addresses the influence of the cerebellum on the performance of an isometric precision grip task. For the task, in which the process of "picking a raspberry" is simulated, grip force and pu...

Integrated Physical and Mental Health Care at a Nurse-Managed Clinic: Report from the Trenches.

The Health and Wellness Center (HWC), located in Joliet, Illinois, is a nurse-managed universally accessible primary health care center funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Adminis...

Telephone Care Management's Effectiveness in Coordinating Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries in Managed Care: A Randomized Controlled Study.

OBJECTIVE: To test the effectiveness of a telephone care management intervention to increase the use of primary and preventive care, reduce hospital admissions, and reduce emergency department visits...