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[Republished with Permission from KFF Health News. Author Angela Hart] LOS ANGELES — They distribute GPS devices so they can track their homeless patients. They stock their street kits with glass pipes used to smoke meth, crack, or fentanyl. They keep company credit cards on hand in case a patient needs emergency food or water, […]

joint efforts will form best practices for non-profit health organizations to leverage patient self-reporting with the goal of advancing science, treatment and quality of life.

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, appeared on “CBS Morning News” on May 30 to discuss concerns that the spread of an avian flu virus has decimated flocks of birds, which may affect consumers’ supply of eggs. Eggs are a major tool in the manufacturing of vaccines that could help protect people from a bird flu outbreak.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, a randomized controlled clinical trial has demonstrated that an intensive lifestyle intervention, without drugs, significantly improved cognition and function after 20 weeks in many patients with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. The multisite clinical study was published today in the leading peer-reviewed Alzheimer’s […]

In a nation that was sharply divided about government health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been warming to the idea of government rules providing for paid sick leave.

The digital health sector has its ups and downs! Some judge its success by investment dollars and others by market sales. This is a sector in continuous evolution. There is little doubt that health information and the technological link between patient diagnosis, data and clinical options are intertwined. Amir Lahav, a connected and respected part […]

[Republished with permission from KFF Health News. Authored by Céline Gounder.] Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. As a college student in the 1990s, I was fascinated by the sheer magnitude of what it took to […]

Renowned Endocrinologist Leon Igel MD, Recognized for Pioneering Work in Diabetes and Obesity Management

Collaboration supports the patient journey across the care continuum and eases transitions and care from the hospital to home

Rural hospitals throughout the nation are facing a conundrum. An increase in costs amid lower payments from insurance plans makes it harder for small hospitals to fund large capital improvement projects