Bringing Better Health Care To Seniors: Florida-Based Medical Practice Creates 38% Fewer Hospital Days For Seniors

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's fastest-growing integrated senior primary care medical practice, ChenMed, today announced that the June 2013 issue of Health Affairs includes ...

Reports show opiate abuse remains problem for Massachusetts

With eastern Massachusetts leading the nation in the incidence of drug-related emergency room visits involving heroin and other opiates, medical experts are urging the use alternative pain therapies and an overdose-reversing drug to slow the deadly trend. “Admissions to the hospital for overdose is just, I think, one of the most acute and worrisome signs that we see from the growth of the number ...

SD Hospital Charges Vary Dramatically, Outpace National Averages

A new pacemaker at San Diego’s Scripps Mercy Hospital will cost you $86,000, but it will set you back $139,000 at Sharp Chula Vista. Why such disparity? No one seems to know.

Patients shun NHS for clinics run by Polish GPs: Cut-price private surgeries where you can see a doctor seven days a ...

Despite charging £70 a visit, the My Medyk clinic in West London, run by Radek Przypis (pictured) already has almost 6,000 Britons on its books. Customers are welcomed into the spotless and modern centre.

Book raises alarms about alternative medicine

Doctor of Pharmacology Sarah Erush, is the clinical manager of the pharmacy at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. / J. Kyle Keener for USA TODAY