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New research shows race and geography prevent some of the most vulnerable from obtaining effective treatments, including powerful anti-coagulant that can break up the clot causing the stroke.
After addressing inefficiencies in three common procedures, patients care improved and costs fell by up to 11 percent, results showed.
Avoidable readmissions within 30 days of initial discharge are estimated to cost Medicare more than $17 billion annually.
Many children live in houses with guns, but pediatricians often don't feel comfortable discussing gun safety with parents, even though most parents say they would welcome that conversation, study says.
Entomologists, vector technicians, communications specialists and public health scientists have been part of the Zika teams.
Israel-based pharmaceutical company will meet with U.S. FDA to re-submit its marketing application, hopes to launch generic by 2018.
From 2011 to 2015, insurers' payments to hospitals, laboratories, treatment centers and other medical providers for these patients grew from $32 million to $446 million -- a 1,375 percent increase.
Almost $1,000 per procedure examined at the academic medical center, UCSF researchers find.
Across the board, hospitals earned more if they were in a state where more people had coverage and saw declines in the level of uncompensated care.
Rising concerns about spending on prescription drugs that treat rare diseases are not justified, according to a new analysis in the journal Health Affairs.