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For patients who undergo complex abdominal operations in the US, poor transitions from the hospital to home contribute to hospital readmission rates ranging from 13 to 30 percent

Patients in Sweden’s emergency clinics complaining of chest pain are evaluated using the recently introduced high-sensitivity troponin T assay

Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they are not always saving money, according to a new study by healthcare provider Cedars-Sinai, which systematically evaluated the effectiveness and financial benefit of quality improvement programmes at medical centres in the US and elsewhere.

The US health plan Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed two outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for its acute coronary disease drug Brilinta and Bydureon, a treatment for Type II diabetes, in which the cost of the drugs will be linked to their effectiveness in actual patients.

EU research chiefs flag the multiple challenges ahead for Framework Programme 9

New analysis finds the extremely competitive research programme is rejecting more and more great proposals. The success rate is down from 18.5% in FP7 to a lowly 11.6% now

Romanian government drops foreign evaluators from its national funding schemes and cuts science funding as the EU gears up for the next research framework programme

The Hungarian government and New York governor Andrew Cuomo to start talks that may end threat that a new higher education law would force CEU to close its Budapest campus