Disease

In a poster presentation at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery meeting, a paper demonstrates that the cost of hip and knee replacements can be significantly decreased with no change in outcomes and no greater rates of complications.

For almost 50 years, the United States has been fighting a war that has claimed tens of millions of lives. The battleground? Hospitals and research labs across the country. The enemy? Cancer.

Meaningful use refers to not just having electronic health records (EHR), but using them in a useful way for patients.

Nine American tourists have died this year under mysterious circumstances in the Dominican Republic. Quite obviously, many are wondering if it's safe to visit the country.

One of the more common infections associated with overtreatment is C. difficile colitis, an infection of the large intestine, the colon.

It is estimated that 7.3% of the global adult population has some alterations in their metabolism resulting in hyperglycemia, an increase in blood sugar, not to the range we determine is diabetes, but heading in that direction, the individual with

With the announcement of CVS's HealthHubs, the synergy of data and business is rapidly coming to the health sector; health systems will become havens only for the severely acutely ill, the more complex, the expensive.

Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm where the atrium’s contractions are not synchronized to the contractions of the ventricle; the atrial chamber quivers more than contracts.

Twenty years before Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare juggernaut, there was and still is the Leapfrog group.

I live on the East End, that part of Long Island where the island forks into its north, agriculture, and fishing, and it’s south, more associated with the Hamptons, summer home for the beautiful people; but it was not always so.