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The Medical Board of California has launched investigations into doctors who prescribed opioids to patients who, perhaps months or years later, fatally overdosed. Read More »
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Medicare boosts incentives to promote weight loss, prevent diabetes
Lifestyle coaches will teach beneficiaries with prediabetes how to prevent diabetes by losing weight and exercising over three year program Read More »
Medicare to pay $450 to help seniors lose weight, avoid diabetes
Oscar and Teri Lara of Rancho Bernardo were diagnosed with prediabetes a few months ago, a condition 86 million Americans share. That means the retired couple live with a greater chance they’ll develop diabetes, which can lead to heart, nerve, kidney and eye disease, and an early death. The Laras are lucky. Nine in 10 Americans don’t know they have ... Read More »
San Diego doctors join criticism of Trump’s health agency choice
Protesting doctors fear that with Price at HHS helm, services could be reduced for one in three Californians on Medi-Cal. Read More »
When doctors and the DMV decide it’s time for you to stop driving
inewsource asked the DMV to disclose how many times it curbed driver’s licenses because of medical conditions like Alzheimer's or dementia. Read More »
Privacy concerns halt UCSD’s posting of patients’ physician critiques
From airlines to restaurants today, it’s all about the customer experience. Were they treated respectfully and promptly, and did they get what they came for? That’s increasingly true for health care organizations, and UCSD San Diego Health is no different. The 500-physician hospital system is so set on improving its patients’ experience with their doctors that it was about to ... Read More »