St. John's Medical Center in Jackson, Wyo., is developing a "lifestyle medicine" program to better manage patient health, according to the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
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Hospitals, nursing homes and home health providers are creating new disaster protocols amid wildfire season in California, reports Kaiser Health News.
Healthcare organizations seeking to improve clinician satisfaction need a healthcare IT focused on purposeful, user-centered design.
Globally, cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death for middle-aged adults, but a study published Sept. 3 in The Lancet found that cancer-related deaths are now more common in some high-income and middle-income countries.
Planned Parenthood will close two of its clinics in Ohio Sept. 20 due to a loss of state and federal funding, according to The Hill.
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Suicide rates increased in counties across the U.S. from 1999 to 2016, but increases were most prominent in rural areas, according to new research published in JAMA Network Open.
The ACA's Medicaid expansion led to increased Medicaid visits to the hospital emergency department, according to an analysis from Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Minnesota health officials are seeing an increase in blastomycosis cases this year, according to WCCO-TV.
Measles could wipe out the immune system's memory, thus opening the door for other disease outbreaks to occur, Michael Mina, PhD, MD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, told NPR.
Around 700 American women die annually from pregnancy-related causes, and a Sept. 6 report from the CDC reveals there are racial disparities in maternal mortality rates.