Population Health
Rising prices and big-dollar medications are leading to increases in prescription drug spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has found.
Republican Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has announced expanded Medicaid coverage for eligible residents in his state through a program he is calling Medicaid modernization.
Contradictory results between how patients view home health agencies and how the government rates them are hardly unusual. One in five agencies had clinical and patient ratings that differed by two stars or more, a Kaiser Health News analysis of government records shows.
More women with breast cancer -- and an increasing number without -- are choosing to have mastectomies over more breast-sparing procedures. And nearly half don't spend a single night in the hospital but go home the same day, new government data show.
About 500,000 women give birth each year in rural hospitals, yet access to labor and delivery units has been declining. Comprehensive figures are spotty, but an analysis of 306 rural hospitals in nine states with large rural populations found that 7.2 percent closed their obstetrics units between 2010 and 2014.
Pain care for patients already taking opioids can be improved by bringing together multiple non-opioid treatment strategies during hospitalization, a new study has found.
The military's health program falls significantly short in providing mental health care to active service members, according to a RAND Corp. study published Thursday.
As superbug outbreaks raised alarm across the country last year, a prominent doctor at a Philadelphia cancer center wrote in a leading medical journal about how to reduce the risk of these often-deadly patient infections.
Two Flint, Michigan health centers have been awarded $500,000 by the Health and Human Services Department to expand their responses to the recent lead contamination disaster of Flint's water, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Thursday, along with HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dr. Nicole Lurie, who is leading the federal response and recovery effort in Flint.
University of Chicago Medicine is moving to address a long-standing lack of access to emergency, adult trauma and complex care for the city's South Side residents with a $269 million expansion project they call the "Get CARE Initiative". The system submitted the plan and a certificate of need to state regulators this week, UChicago Medicine said in a statement released Thursday.