Healthcare

Preventing an electronic health record system (EHR) from automatically ordering daily lab tests without a review process can save a large hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a new study published in...

New York City, a town known for professional baseball, has sent a line drive straight at smokeless tobacco, knocking it and other nicotine alternatives out of the park and away from the cheap seats...

Unemployment is low and strong job growth is anticipated in 2016, with healthcare being the most promising sector. U.S. News and World Report ranked its top 100 jobs for 2016, and the healthcare sector highlighted...

In early April, New York passed the country’s most comprehensive paid family leave policy. Employers in the state of New York will be required to offer up to 12 weeks of paid time off...

Federal hospital quality ratings slated to be released in April were postponed until at least July after the hospital industry and Congress pressed for a delay. The delay occurred one day before the Centers for...

We’ve never had more reason to exercise. Every time you turn on the television, listen to the radio, or surf the web, there’s someone with a PhD and a white coat talking about LDLs, triglycerides,...

The recent news that Anthem, California’s largest healthcare provider, will purchase insurance giant Cigna for nearly $50 billion caps off an extended period of mergers among America’s biggest healthcare companies. Earlier in July, a deal...

A U.S. biotech company has received ethical permission to regenerate the brains of dead people. Yes, you read that right. Bioquark Inc., which works on the development of novel biologics for complex regeneration and disease...

Although it was first isolated in Africa in 1947, the Zika virus infection – caused by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes – was largely unknown to U.S. residents until recently. But with the World...

All adults should be screened for depression – especially pregnant women and new mothers. That’s the conclusion of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which recently published its recommendations in The Journal of the American...