Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

Statins linked with cataracts
Preventive angioplasty fends off new cardiac events

But controversial strategy increases procedure time
Tour de France cyclists stay vertical longer

Elite athletes have lower mortality than average people
Walking an hour each day reduces breast cancer risk: study

A little bit of walking could go a long way, a new study suggests.
U.K. extends controversial cancer drug fund

Program is for medications found not to be cost or clinically effective enough for wider use.
How to conduct a patient-care survey for your office

Eight tips for assessing your clinic’s performance—and how to share the feedback
Thousands of patients leaving hospital too soon, only to return for care

Patients who leave an emergency department or hospital against medical advice before their treatment is finished tend to return within a short period of time, according to new data.
Readers back broader use of NPs, PAs

More use of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) received overwhelming support from MedPage Today readers as the best means to ease the physician shortage.

NPs may have higher job satisfaction than physicians, survey says