Deaths & Death Rates

Even though we've had 19 major aircraft accidents this year, the number of deaths remains a microscopic percentage of the overall number of people who fly.

CMS published a detailed memo over the weekend discussing Heart Month, and some of the Medicare benefits and information (both professional and for patients) available. Heart Month is an ideal practice promotion/marketing opportunity,...

In addition to my day job as the CRM Director for the American Cancer Society, High Plains Division, I'm also a volunteer with its national signature event, Relay For Life. I would like...

Starting next year, the Medicare program will pay physicians more for the time they spend talking with Medicare beneficiaries about their health care and will pay for a broader range of preventive services....

In conjunction with National Breast Cancer Month (NBCAM), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to invite you to join with us in helping to promote increased awareness of the...

The current issue of Annals of Surgery (subscription required), and reported by AP/Yahoo , suggests that older surgeons should not be doing certain more complex procedures, and that a tapering down of surgery...

The full IOM press release and the response issued by CMS Administrator McLelland are posted here: Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every...

Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine this week that offers a different approach to controlling the medical malpractice insurance crisis/problem. We know that...