Researchers affiliated with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub are testing a brain implant that, according to a recent study, can disrupt physical movements in primates, according to Business Insider.
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While exercising and losing weight represent one of the most popular New Year's resolutions each year, as many as 92 percent of Americans fail to maintain their resolution throughout the whole year.
Authorities are investigating a hazardous materials incident at Olympia, Wash.-based Providence St. Peter Hospital Jan. 2 that prompted the hospital to divert patients from the emergency room, according to The Olympian.
Nationally, black patients are 48 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white patients, according to a recent study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention in October and cited by the Chicago Tribune.
In an op-ed for Health Affairs, political economist and independent consultant Karl Polzer discusses the need for federally mandated paid sick leave for U.S. employees, claiming that refusing to allow them time off may pose a health risk, among other…
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From the keto diet to ALS, Google compiled data on the top trending health-related questions searched in the U.S. in 2018, CBS News reports.
Critics are arguing Facebook's suicide prevention efforts, though promising, have allowed the social network to "[assume] the authority of a public health agency while protecting its process as if it were a corporate secret," The New York Times reports.
Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas has "months" before it considers cutting some neonatal intensive care unit services due to dwindling Medicaid reimbursement, the hospital's CEO told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Sturgis (Mich.) Hospital's birth center will close Jan. 2 amid job and services cuts, according to WWMT, a CBS-affiliate TV station in Kalamazoo, Mich.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., has introduced legislation that aims to expand healthcare access for Medicaid and Medicare patients, particularly for rural patients in areas with large numbers of freestanding emergency rooms, according to the senator's office.