Population Health
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.
Injuries that brought a patient to the emergency room were most likely to have involved steps or stairs, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a resource maintained by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to their recent data, which concerned the year 2014, 1.14 million trips to the ER involved the common household fixture.
A new report from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care reveals significant variation in payments in Colorado for hip and knee replacements between private health insurance payers and Medicare: Coloradans with private insurance in the northeast pay $55,000 more than their neighbors with Medicare, while those in Denver pay $17,000 over Medicare prices.
In Baltimore's poorer neighborhoods, where problems are plentiful and solutions scarce, Total Health Care strives to correct disparities in access and treatment long faced by people who struggle to get by.