Hospitals gamble on urgent care clinics to keep patients healthy
Most of the 9,000 urgent care clinics nationwide are owned by corporation or physicians, but hospital systems are increasingly aiming to get a cut of the booming industry. Hospitals already own about...
View ArticleSmokers may fare worse after colorectal surgery
Smoking has long been linked with slower recovery in general from injuries and surgeries, and now a new study finds that smokers face more complications and higher chances of death following major...
View ArticleJust for moms: How to meet other ‘mom friends’
Many people I know compare finding mom friends to the dating game. Moms are looking for company, but they are also yearning to meet a like-minded person who is experiencing the same things. Continue...
View ArticleHealth system touted by Obama not yet endorsing Medicaid expansion
Intermountain Healthcare, the Salt Lake City-based hospital system praised by President Barack Obama as being a model for low-cost, high quality care, says it is not convinced Utah should expand...
View ArticleVeterans Day lets us recognize sacrifices of military children
There also are 500,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 13 whose parents serve in the military. For those kids, Veterans Day is a day to remember not just the sacrifices their moms and dads have made for...
View ArticleStudy tentatively links flu in pregnancy and autism
Kids whose mothers had the flu while pregnant were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with "infantile autism" before age three in a new Danish study. But the children's overall risk for the...
View ArticleProtective eye gear cuts field hockey injuries
Fewer high school field hockey players get head and face injuries when they're required to don protective eyewear, according to a new comparison of states with and without those policies in effect....
View ArticleGlobal deal reached to fight tobacco smuggling
Global health officials agreed a deal on Monday, Nov. 12, to fight smuggling of tobacco products, a trade which robs governments of more than $40 billion in revenue each year and undercuts efforts to...
View ArticleStudy: Testing pain drugs on humans could produce better painkillers
In a new twist on animal testing, two pain researchers would like to inflict pain on an unlikely subject: humans. Deliberately inflicting carefully controlled pain on humans — volunteers — and...
View ArticleNew drug helps patients with rare inflammatory diseases
Novartis' Ilaris helps reduce patients' symptoms and the frequency of attacks in two rare inflammatory diseases, mid-stage studies showed, as the Swiss drugmaker looks to expand the use of the...
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