People are increasingly going to a retail clinic for primary, non-emergency health care. Retail clinics are less expensive and more accessible than conventional health care providers and studies show the results are largely the same. Also called primary care, mini, walk-in, or convenient care clinics, retail clinics are located in retail stores, pharmacies and supermarkets. [...]
There’s good news and bad news for cancer patients. New drugs more effective at targeting the deadliest forms of cancer are coming on-line. That’s the good news. The bad news is that no one can afford them New drugs have always been relatively expensive. It takes years of research and development, rigorous testing and a [...]
Posted on May 21, 2010, 5:26 pm, by California Health Plans, under
Medical Doctors.
A study conducted by Manhattan Research of over 2,000 U.S. physicians indicates that physicians are spending eight hours online each week in 2010. In 2006 it was reported that they spent 4.5 hours online and in 2002 only 2.5 hours online each week. It is clear that doctors are spending more of their professional time online [...]