Health care providers are key to preventing, recognizing and rapidly treating sepsis, since seven in 10 patients who develop sepsis recently interacted with a health care provider or are likely to
During 2017 open enrollment, Healthcare.gov will display information on the relative size of provider networks for health plans in about six states, not all as originally planned, the Centers for M
Prescription drug claims for the 38 million beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage and stand-alone prescription drug plans rose by 3.3% in 2014, while drug costs for the program rose by 17% to $121 bi
Mark Gestring, M.D., a trauma surgeon at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center (URMC), was fed up seeing teenagers arrive at the trauma center to be treated for gunshot or knife wounds,
The Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend that health care facilities not use certain Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors to reprocess duodenoscopes, the agency said t
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union of a hospital to organize only a small portion of the unrepresented employees in a partially organized bargaining unit.