The percentage of U.S. adults who are obese reached 27.7 percent in 2014, up more than two percent since 2008, according to a Gallup and Healthways poll.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has reaffirmed its opposition to legalizing marijuana, due to the potentially harmful effects the drug may have on children an adolescents.
New legislation has been proposed in New York City that would require all youth tackle football games played in the city to have a physician present on the sidelines, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Community health centers in two Oregon counties will begin piloting a year-long alternative payment program this month with the goal of lowering healthcare costs, according to a Corvallis Gazette-Times report.
As the number of accountable care organizations rises nationwide, more hospitals and health systems confront new challenges while learning to deliver population health.
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Although 83 percent of Americans are looking to make a change in their diet and exercise in 2015, fewer than half (43 percent) will consult their physician to guide such changes.
UnitedHealthcare and Plano, Texas-based Catalyst Health Network plan to create an accountable care organization for UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored health plan beneficiaries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to a release in the Fort Mill Times.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has proposed a measure to raise its legal age for smoking tobacco to 21 from 18, according to a Reuters to report.
In a recent blog post, xG Health Solutions’ CMO Dr. Gordon Norman offers us 8 fallacies on why people think PHM programs are not working. 1. PHM Programs Are Comparable2. Combining Studies of Successful and Unsuccessful Programs and Concluding Null…
Cigna announced Tuesday the launch of five new collaborative care agreements in Florida and California, formed to achieve the same population health goals of accountable care organizations.