Choice to Use Drug-Eluting Stents Has Little Relation to Patients’ Probable Benefit

Choice to Use Drug-Eluting Stents Has Little Relation to Patients’ Probable Benefit – Using bare metal stents for many low-risk patients could save more than 0 million annually Dr. Robert Yeh, MD, Msc, an interventional cardiologist at the …

Hawaii helps the homeless disappear one plane ticket at a time

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The “return to home” program is set to launch this fiscal year — the state will purchase one-way plane tickets, and eventually even beds on cruise ships, to send homeless people back to their families in other regions of the country, reports MSN News.
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Requiring some patients to get mental health treatment saves money

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Swanson and colleagues conducted a comprehensive cost analysis of New York's assisted outpatient treatment program, which mandates community-based care for severely mentally ill patients who have a history of revolving-door admissions to … The …
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