Daily Archives: 24/07/2017
Dementia markers
Worried about dementia? Hearing and language problems could be forerunners of cognitive decline Even in their 60s, people who will go on to develop cognitive problems show different speaking patterns when describing a picture. (Stanislaw Rozpedzik / European Pressphoto Agency) Melissa Healy Melissa HealyContact Reporter Scientists have traced the roots of dementia back to midlife, […]
The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
PUBLIC HEALTH By JULIE CRESWELL, REED ABELSON and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ JULY 24, 2017 Early last year, executives at a small hospital an hour north of Spokane, Wash., started using a company called EmCare to staff and run their emergency room. The hospital had been struggling to find doctors to work in its E.R., and turning […]










