Population Health

Scientists at the University of Southern California discovered a key weapon used by the Zika virus to ravage the brains of infected fetuses: proteins.

Hillary Clinton urged Congress to return to Washington and approve Zika funding for treatment, research and testing.

Elderly and disabled Californians were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report.

United States Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy is touring the nation to pressure drug prescribers to take an active role in the fight to end the opioid epidemic engulfing the country.

Aetna has sent a letter to over 900 physicians, telling them they fall within the top 1 percent of opioid prescribers.

About one-third of patients over 70 years old and more than half of patients over 85 leave the hospital more disabled than when they arrived, research shows.

Because physicians who treat addiction don't necessarily have experience with surgery or access to sterile spaces, some are having to learn a new skill and develop new systems.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.

Premier Inc. is joining forces with America's Essential Hospitals, which champions care for vulnerable populations, in a bid to improve quality, cost and population health at its member hospitals.

A report in 2012 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse revealed that medical schools devoted little time to teaching addiction medicine -- only a few hours over four years. Since then, the number of Americans overdosing from prescribed opioids has surpassed 14,000 per year, quadrupling from 1999 to 2014.