If you intend to live a long and healthy life, you must make sleep a priority. Data now show that without adequate sleep, cognitive performance in active people in their 50s and 60s declines.1 Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. For a long time, people believed that sleep might be little more… Read More »
Aoife Rafter (28) can vividly remember the first hug she shared with her boyfriend after 17 weeks of cocooning. Aoife, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was nine years old and cervical cancer when she was 27, spent four months in her bedroom in her family home in Co Kildare, eating her meals… Read More »
More than two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries find their insurance confusing and difficult to understand, according to a recent survey by MedicareAdvantage.com, which also revealed that many don’t grasp basic insurance terminology. The study sample included 1,000 respondents enrolled in Medicare and took place over August 17 to 19. Participants were quizzed about topics ranging from… Read More »
The majority of doctors said they are short on medical supplies and COVID-19 tests, according to a new survey. Seventy-three percent of U.S. physicians reported not being able to test patients quickly and easily for coronavirus, while at least half say they have treated at least one patient with possible COVID-19 symptoms. Seventy-seven percent did… Read More »
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that he would have to implement major cuts to the state budget because of the lack of aid from Congress. “We have no state revenues to speak of. We’re going to have to dramatically cut our state expenses. You can’t spend that which you don’t have,” Cuomo said… Read More »
Accountable care organizations have major challenges integrating social services with medical care, including a lack of data on their patients’ social needs and the capabilities of community partners. That’s the finding of a new study published in the journal Health Affairs, based on qualitative data from 22 ACOs. “The ACOs in our sample frequently lacked… Read More »