Articles tagged "health care"

A Canadian study finds a routine surgery produces more waste than a family of four.

There's no vaccine for dengue fever, which kills 25,000 people a year. But a Swiss researcher believes she's uncovered a way to predict when outbreaks will occur.

A new report slams Big Pharma's direct-to-consumer advertising "self-regulation."

In short, the U.S. spends a lot more money on health care and gets a lot less than the rest of the industrialized world for that money. If you've ever chilled in the ER waiting room at, say, Maryland General Hospital, or squabbled with a health insur…

In 2006, Massachusetts, with then-governor Mitt Romney at the wheel, passed a health care reform law very similar to the national-scale "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_A…