To survive health reform, public hospitals will have to start operating more like private hospitals or else dramatically cut costs, according to a report by the Texas Tribune.
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State budget cuts are impeding the goal of a 2009 federal law to provide health insurance coverage to 4 million more low-income children, according to a report by USA Today.
Even though health reform will allow 32 million previously uninsured Americans to get regular care from physicians, many of these patients are expected to continue crowding into emergency departments.
Insured people under age 65 were as likely to visit an ED in a 12-month period as uninsured individuals in the same age group, according to a report by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Chicago Public Schools will open the city's first high school focused on educating students for future careers in healthcare, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business.
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Many areas of the country that had low healthcare spending have been showing a sharp increase in the number of procedures and tests following introduction of new ASCs, cancer treatment centers and diagnostic technology, according to a report by the…
A majority of representatives in the U.S. House wants its leadership to introduce a bill extending extra federal funds to states for Medicaid and other healthcare assistance programs, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Physicians' diagnoses and overall spending levels for Medicare patients vary substantially across U.S. regions, according to two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A study from the University of Munich, using quantitative sensory testing to identify changes in pain sensitivity, found that pain thresholds increased by up to 50 percent in healthy volunteers undergoing acupuncture to the left leg, according to a news…
A new study from the University of Michigan found that one out of three patients with chronic pain reported using complementary and alternative medicine therapies such as acupuncture and chiropractic visits for pain relief, but socioeconomic factors also play a…