New study shows that patient-tailored support from community health workers can reduce hospitalization and improve control of obesity, diabetes and smoking.
Less pubic hair, more problems. About 26% of men and women who groom their pubic hair have been injured at least once, according to a JAMA Dermatology study published Wednesday. Of that total, 32% said that it had happened five or more times.
More than 139,000 kidney patients sought treatment at dialysis clinics around the state last year, a rise of about 46 percent from about 95,000 eight years earlier.
The health care provider contacted the city’s building department two weeks ago and asked to meet about a conceptual plan. The hospital system confirmed that discussions were underway but said it was too preliminary to formally announce any plans. Saint Alphonsus operates...
For hospital systems from central Oregon to the coast, it will be all-hands on deck in the run-up and aftermath of the eclipse. "The need for acute care services oftentimes just mimics the increase in the population," said Dr. Jeff Absalon, executive vice president of St...
RAND survey of physicians and nurses at nearly 300 federally qualified health centers across the nation finds increasing dissatisfaction with work conditions.
Each year, superbugs -- viral bacterial infections resistant to common antibiotics -- infect more than two million Americans, killing at least 38,000. As the list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grows, so have the extraordinary efforts to prevent the spread of...
More than 93 percent of patients now have their arteries opened within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival. “Things have definitely improved” from a decade ago, when less than half of heart attack patients were treated that fast, said Dr. Fred Masoudi, a University of...
