(HealthDay)—In 2017, health care spending per person reached $5,641, according to the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) annual Health Care
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Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans
Several years ago, MapQuest directed me on a 10-hour drive to visit my father in a Florida hospital. Complications from
Continue reading »Sticker shock: Why the U.S. needs price tags on health care
What if you could shop for a magnetic resonance imaging scan like you would for someone to paint your house?
Continue reading »Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model Cuts Costs
WEDNESDAY, Jan 2, 2019 — The Medicare-implemented Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled-payment model reduces spending for hip or
Continue reading »A holiday gift to primary care doctors: Proof of their time crunch
The average primary care doctor needs to work six more hours a day than they already do, in order to
Continue reading »Peer support can help curb acute care for persons with depression and diabetes
A new study published by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers shows that community health workers and peer support can
Continue reading »Midwifery care cuts poor birth outcomes versus physician care
(HealthDay)—Compared with physician models of care, midwifery care is associated with lower odds of poor birth outcomes for low-income women,
Continue reading »Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx aims to cure a health care system ailment
Several years ago, drug shortages became headline news when supplies of three different drugs used to treat childhood cancers were
Continue reading »Discovery paves way for improved ovarian cancer care
Australian scientists have revealed a better way to identify which patients should respond to powerful ovarian cancer drugs called PARP
Continue reading »UK health care worker contracts rare monkeypox virus in third case
The latest patient had been involved in caring for another case at Blackpool Victoria Hospital before monkeypox was diagnosed. (CDC)
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