Dive Brief: Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) generated nearly $ 740 million in savings last year, according to data recently released by CMS. ACOs that took on downside risk performed better, reducing spending by an average of $ 96 per beneficiary compared to $ 68 for those that did not… Read More »
For those of you who will not be able to attend our one day course in Women’s Mental Health in Boston on Thursday, October 17th, we are offering an online version of the course. This online course will focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in women across the reproductive lifespan. Specialized knowledge… Read More »
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably become increasingly concerned about your data, and for good reason: It seems that every day, we wake up to news about a new data breach or privacy violation, encouraging collective paranoia to travel widely and well. This fear is perhaps most justified when it comes to matters as intimate… Read More »
Health officials are urgently trying to track down 200 people and give them the MMR jab amid fears of a measles outbreak in Essex Health officials said eight people are suspected to have measles They all attended a day service for learning difficulties in Southend-on-Sea The centre has closed for the rest of the week… Read More »
The Home Office has agreed to reconsider the case of a young doctor who was ordered to leave the country following an “administrative issue”. Mu-Chun Chiang, who has lived in the UK for 13 years, was told to leave or face up to six months in prison. A petition calling for the 27-year-old to be… Read More »
For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop a universal vaccine to prevent cancer. The mindset is simple, according to Johnston. Treat cancer just like an infectious disease. So, when… Read More »