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.
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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.
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Panama City, Fla.-based Bay Medical Sacred Heart will resume limited inpatient care on Jan. 2, according to a news release obtained by the Panama City News Herald.
Seventy-seven patients, including newborns, were temporarily evacuated Dec. 29, after a small fire erupted at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Medical Center, according to the Florida Times Union.
Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health is requesting permission from the New York State Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health to close the inpatient behavioral health unit at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital, according to The Chronicle-Express.
Some public hospitals in Washington are turning to respite programs to address the state's worsening homelessness issue, reports The Seattle Times.
Pennsylvania senators and representatives have written to CMS to see if the agency can give more information to patients who will be affected in six months by a split between Pittsburgh-based Highmark and UPMC, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.