Frequent face time trumps phone calls or e-mail in helping to ward off depression in older adults, researchers found. Nancy Donovan (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Outpatient care may cost more when hospitals own the medical practices or employ the physicians, a U.S. study suggests. Hannah Neprash, a health policy researcher at Harvard University is lead author and J. Michael McWilliams (HMS) is senior author of the study.
Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made the top 10 on a new scoreboard for U.S. medical centers with the best patient care.
If the existence of the placebo effect is a mystery, new research on pain medication poses an even greater riddle. Not only is the placebo effect real, it seems to be growing exclusively in the United States. Ted Kaptchuk (Beth Israel Deaconess) is quoted.
