Pueblo, Colo.-based St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center will close its obstetrics and neonatal intensive care units Dec. 15, directly contradicting an announcement made last month, according to the Pueblo Chieftain.
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A team of researchers at Scripps Translational Science Institute and The Scripps Research Institute, both based in La Jolla, Calif., launched an app-based research study to improve heart health.
Statin use has been linked to an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research findings from the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group and published online in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.
New York State will no longer allow people to use e-cigarettes in areas where smoking tobacco products is banned.
A water main break in Farmington Hills, Mich., Monday evening has forced several area hospitals to scale back services or completely shut down.
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In many hospitals, hospitalists routinely care for at least 50 percent of inpatients — so when physician alignment falls out of place, the entire hospital feels the effects.
Adolescents aged 15 to 19 saw the largest decline in abortion rate among any group between 2008 and 2014, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Rural America experiences higher rates of opioid overdose deaths compared to the more urban parts of the country, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Exposure to air, water and soil pollution caused 9 million premature deaths around the globe in 2015 —killing three times more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, according to a report published in The Lancet.
In the months before the January discontinuation of a three-year gun violence research initiative backed by the National Institutes of Health, emails between NIH staff indicated an internal split on the issue, according to a report from Science.