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How Low Can They Go? Rural Hospitals Weigh Keeping Obstetric Units When Births Decline
As rural hospitals struggle to stay financially stable, their leaders watch other small facilities close obstetrics units to cut costs.
Read MoreResearcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original
Read More6 Months to Live or Die: How Long Should an Alcoholic Liver Disease Patient Wait for a Transplant?
The night before Brian Gorzney planned to check into rehab for alcohol use, he began vomiting blood. First at 2
Read MoreNew Research Finds J&J Vaccine Has Muscle Against Covid’s Delta Variant
In the past two weeks, many medical experts started to question whether the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is administered
Read MoreHospitals, Insurers Invest Big Dollars to Tackle Patients’ Social Needs
PHILADELPHIA — When doctors at a primary care clinic here noticed many of its poorest patients were failing to show
Read MoreMany New Moms Get Kicked Off Medicaid 2 Months After Giving Birth. Illinois Will Change That.
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in which the maternal death rate has been rising. Each year, about 700 deaths
Read MorePandemic Leads Doctors to Rethink Unnecessary Treatment
Covid-19 is opening the door for researchers to address a problem that has vexed the medical community for decades: the
Read More‘Kicking You When You’re Down’: Many Cancer Patients Pay Dearly for Parking
For cancer patients, the road from diagnosis to survivorship feels like a never-ending parade of medical appointments: surgeries, bloodwork, chemotherapy,
Read MoreTrouble Managing Money May Be an Early Sign of Dementia
After Maria Turner’s minivan was totaled in an accident a dozen years ago, she grew impatient waiting for the insurance
Read MoreMental Health Services Wane as Insurers Appear to Skirt Parity Rules During Pandemic
Therapists and other behavioral health care providers cut hours, reduced staffs and turned away patients during the pandemic as more
Read MoreIndiana’s Medicaid Expansion — Designed by Pence and Verma — Panned in Federal Report
Indiana’s Medicaid expansion — with its “personal responsibility” provisions that require enrollees to pay monthly premiums and manage health savings
Read MoreDramática baja de enfermedades por virus comunes, ¿significa máscaras para siempre?
Las máscaras y el distanciamiento físico están demostrando tener importantes beneficios extra, evitando que las personas contraigan todo tipo de
Read MoreDramatic Drop in Common Viruses Raises Question: Masks Forever?
Masks and physical distancing are proving to have major fringe benefits, keeping people from getting all kinds of illnesses —
Read MoreCDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers?
Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor
Read MoreDid CDC’s Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up Covid Death Toll for Health Workers?
Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor
Read MoreDid CDC Delays in Up-To-Date Masking Advice Cost Health Workers’ Lives?
Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor
Read MoreCoronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways
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Read MoreChildren’s Hospitals Are Partly to Blame as Superbugs Increasingly Attack Kids
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Inc.: Colleagues Question Scientist’s Pricey Recipe Against Memory Loss
When her husband was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, Elizabeth Pan was devastated by the lack of options
Read MoreFeds Look to Pharmacists to Boost Childhood Immunization Rates
Torey Watson is trained as a pharmacist but aims to do more than simply fill prescriptions. Pharmax Pharmacy — a
Read MoreFor Nurses Feeling the Strain of the Pandemic, Virus Resurgence Is ‘Paralyzing’
For Christina Nester, the pandemic lull in Massachusetts lasted about three months through summer into early fall. In late June,
Read More‘Breakthrough Finding’ Reveals Why Certain COVID Patients Die
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Read MoreThey Work in Several Nursing Homes to Eke Out a Living, Possibly Spreading the Virus
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Read MoreWhat We Know About the Airborne Spread of the Coronavirus
The federal government did a quick pivot on the threat of the coronavirus spreading through the air, changing a key
Read MoreReapertura de universidades generó 3,000 nuevos casos de COVID por día, según estudio
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Read MoreColleges’ Opening Fueled 3,000 COVID Cases a Day, Researchers Say
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000
Read MoreStudents’ Mass Migration Back to College Gets a Failing Grade
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Read MoreWith No Legal Guardrails for Patients, Ambulances Drive Surprise Medical Billing
This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). School librarian Amanda Brasfield bent
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