Making emergency rooms ‘pediatric ready’ saves lives
Making hospital EDs ready to provide basic health care to kids could cost as little as $4 to $8 per patient while improving survival rates.
Making emergency rooms ‘pediatric ready’ saves lives
Making hospital EDs ready to provide basic health care to kids could cost as little as $4 to $8 per patient while improving survival rates.
Pharmacists treating minor illness could cut health care costs
Greater use of pharmacists to treat minor illnesses could potentially save millions of dollars in health care costs, researchers report.
Pharmacists treating minor illness could cut health care costs
Greater use of pharmacists to treat minor illnesses could potentially save millions of dollars in health care costs, researchers report.
High prices for new diabetes drugs are reason for alarm
“As with insulin, our patients are facing parallel challenges in accessing other new non-insulin diabetes and anti-obesity medications.”
Costs top health worries among older adults
Health-related costs top older adults’ concerns for people their age, a new poll finds.
Rising health insurance costs have ‘robbed’ American workers
“Health insurance should help people, not hold them back, or push them further behind when it comes to wages and income equality.”
Dementia takes a toll on finances and family
Dementia affects more than the brain. A new study shows the toll it takes on a person’s wallet—and on family caregivers, too.
Listen: How every American could get health insurance
In this podcast episode, Katherine Baicker lays out an innovative blueprint for health care—not to tinker with the system, but to redesign it.
Obamacare has helped farm workers get and stay healthy
Passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 has helped farm workers get better medical care—and avoid trips to the emergency room.