Virginia Mason announced today it has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the fourth consecutive year from Healthgrades, an online resource for comprehensive information about U.S. physicians and ...
New research finds significantly higher levels of infectious pathogens in water from faucet taps with aerators compared to water from deeper in the plumbing system. Contaminated water poses an increased risk for infection in ...
ATLANTA, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Flu activity was high in the U.S. South last week and was increasing in some states, while it had yet to hit the Northeast, officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly flu report said ...
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
Two Cedars-Sinai physician-researchers have been awarded grants totaling $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how the environment - both in the womb and in the hospital where the baby is born - can affect the newborn ...
Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening bowel infection called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Researchers at Loyola University Health System have identified a marker to identify those infants who are at risk for the infection, ...
Tags: Life-Threatening Bowel Infection, Bowel Infection in Premature Infants
Researchers from Sweden say that women who have been treated for cervical precancer should receive lifelong follow-up, after finding that their risk for dying from vaginal or cervical cancer markedly increases after the age of 60 years. ...
Tags: Bjrn Strander, CIN3, Sweden, Marc Arbyn
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, Crozer-Keystone Health System in Delaware County, Pa. is the recipient of the 2013 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Community Service
Less than 20 percent of Americans still smoke cigarettes -- a breakthrough called a "milestone" Thursday by federal health officials. Following years of smoking rates that had hovered around 20 percent, that number finally dropped to 18.1 ...
A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ...
Tobacco control efforts are having a major impact on Americans' health, a new analysis of lung-cancer data suggests. The rate of new lung cancer cases decreased among men and women in the United States from 2005 to 2009, according to a ...
A study conducted by an obesity and food research centre in Hull has found that a provision of pre-packaged set meals can help people lose more weight compared to self-directed dieting. HONEI (Humber Obesity Nutrition Education and ...
Tags: Pre-Packaged Set Meals, Weight Loss, Self-Directed Dieting
As fewer Americans smoke, the number of people who develop lung cancer continues to drop, U.S. health officials report. Between 2005 and 2009, lung cancer rates went down 2.6 percent each year among men, from 87 to 78 cases per 100,000, ...
U.S. government officials say under the Affordable Care Act most health insurance companies will cover drugs that help prevent breast cancer for free. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and ...