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Credit: The FH Foundation Individuals at high risk for cardiovascular events, including those with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) or atherosclerotic heart disease (ASCVD) experienced more heart attacks, strokes and other…

International research team with Göttingen and Heidelberg participation finds inadequate careCredit: Heidelberg University Healthcare in low- and middle-income countries is poorly prepared for the increasing number of high blood…

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR--Millions of Americans with chronic conditions could save money on the drugs and medical services they need the most, if their health insurance plans decide to take advantage of a new federal rule issued…

A national study finds children without insurance who seek treatment for a mental health disorder in the emergency department (ED) are more likely than those with private insurance to be transferred to another hospital. The study,…

A new study from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, published this week in JAMA Network Open, finds that Accountable Care Organization (ACO)-reported care management and coordination activities were not…

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Ashkenazi Jewish women have a 1-in-40 chance of carrying the BRCA mutation and these BRCA-positive women have an 80 percent lifetime risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. A study…

Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in the July issue of Health Affairs, shows that while the number and variety of contracts held by Accountable Care…

By 2016, two years into the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 17.6 million previously uninsured people around the U.S. had gained health insurance coverage. But with the expansion, researchers at the University of Colorado…

Harvard researchers found that nearly 10 million Americans with cardiovascular conditions gained coverage, but twice as many still lack insurance post-ACA Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for Americans, yet…

MADISON, Wis. -- U.S. hospitals wait over a year on average to begin prescribing newly developed antibiotics, a delay that might threaten the supply or discourage future development of needed drugs. A survey of how 132 hospitals…