It's well documented that infants born at full term have better health outcomes. However, one in ten babies in the United States are born via a medically unnecessary early elective delivery, such as an induction of labor, ...
Mar 6, 2017
Direct-to-consumer telehealth services—touted as a convenient and less-expensive way to get care for minor ailments—appears to prompt new use of medical services and thus may drive up medical spending rather than trimming ...
Mar 6, 2017
Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health and disrupt ecological systems. Florida has the sixth highest number of hazardous waste sites, known as Superfund sites, in ...
Mar 6, 2017
Only one in five patients seeking specialty care for hard-to-control high blood pressure (resistant hypertension) are taking all their prescribed medications, according to new research in the American Heart Association's ...
Mar 6, 2017
Low-income patients served by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) waited significantly less time to receive specialty care after DHS implemented an electronic system aimed at expediting access to specialists, ...
Mar 6, 2017
Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are over 80 percent. However, one group has failed to benefit from these improvements, namely children who die so soon after diagnosis ...
Mar 6, 2017
