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.
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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.
CMS is monitoring conditions in support of Californians displaced and recovering from the wildfires devastating the state, which HHS Acting Secretary Eric Hargan declared a public health emergency Oct. 15.
A controversial new policy introduced in the U.K. prohibits patients from undergoing nonurgent surgery if they are obese or have smoked in the last eight weeks, according to a report from The Telegraph.
Boulder (Colo.) Medical Center and Humana launched a value-based healthcare delivery model for Humana Medicare Advantage policyholders in Colorado.
The American Diabetes Association joined forces with Solera Health, a preventive care benefits manager startup, to help diabetes patients access CDC-recognized prevention programs, the company announced Oct. 18.