That statistic bears alarming and costly health consequences, as infants born prematurely are at higher risk for breathing, heart and brain abnormalities, among other complications.
Sutter Health will pay $575 million to settle a closely watched antitrust case filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, whose office had accused the nonprofit...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — It was the arrival of the second man in his early 20s gasping for air that alarmed Dr. Dixie Harris. Young patients rarely...
A federal regulation demands that certain health care organizations provide patients who have limited English skills a written notice of free translation services. But the Trump...
Emergency room patients increasingly leave California hospitals against medical advice, and experts say crowded ERs are likely to blame. About 352,000 California ER visits in 2017...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Imagine identifying a toxin so potent it could rewire a child’s brain and erode his immune system. A substance that, in high...
THE CHICAGO CRUSADER — The U.S. military is devising major reductions in its medical corps, unnerving the system’s advocates who fear the cuts will hobble the armed...
It was a sleepy South Carolina Saturday in mid-February. But Virginia Sanders was speaking, and the audience was rapt. “One might not have the power. But...
The number of people hospitalized because of amphetamine use is skyrocketing in the United States, but the resurgence of the drug largely has been overshadowed by...
By Pauline Bartolone, Kaiser Health News State Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg), who authored the bill, said that when drugmakers woo physicians with meals and other enticements...
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, KHN News Covered California still faces major challenges in enrolling African-Americans and Latinos as the state’s health insurance exchange launches its...
By Ina Jaffe, NPR News As Dean Cole’s dementia worsened, he began wandering at night. He’d even forgotten how to drink water. His wife, Virginia,...