By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, May 21, 2021. Colorado health officials so abhor the high costs associated with free-standing emergency rooms they’re offering to pay hospitals to shut the facilities down. The state wants… Read More
MOUNT DORA, Fla. May 20, 2021 – A lot of misinformation has been circulated about the COVID-19 vaccine. To convince people who are hesitating or refusing to get vaccinated, the American Patient Rights Association, a
To identify the “best hospital cities” in the U.S. and the world, cities were compared on 12 metrics that fell into one of the following three categories: quality of care, infrastructure and access. The metrics...
By Jordan Rau, KHN. October 01, 2019. Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year campaign to financially pressure hospitals into reducing the number of patients who return for a… Read More
By Shelly Stallsmith, York Daily Record, Oct. 15, 2019. WellSpan York Hospital emergency staff were seen on video walking past a patient in a wheelchair approximately 12 times on Aug. 16. No one approached the man… Read More
The shots may speed up the progression of arthritis and hasten the need for surgery. By Jacqueline Stenson, NBC Health News. Oct. 15, 2019. A common therapy for joint pain may not be as safe as experts believed,… Read More
By Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson, for ProPublica. Sep 17, 2019. Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the internet… Read More
By Julie Appleby, The Washington Post, September 24, 2019 Medical treatment has knocked down tumors in 6-year-old Easton Daniels’s brain, but the drug that helped him also wiped out his immune system. To bolster his… Read More
By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More
By Reed Abelson, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2019. Jessie McCormick had to quit her job to afford health care. Ms. McCormick, 27, who has a heart condition, had an opportunity to move from part… Read More