2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (958+ words) California is heading toward a sharp rise in residents without health insurance, and the head of the state's marketplace is describing the moment in blunt terms. "It's triage," Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman told KFF Health News in a…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (867+ words) A 41-year-old man in Japan went in for a routine health checkup and left with a chest X-ray showing a rounded mass roughly 4 centimeters across in the upper part of his left lung field. On a plain film, it looked…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1028+ words) For families, that detail is the part worth pausing on. Claims filed under a dead relative's Medicare number are not an abstract accounting problem. They generate real paperwork, land in real statements, and are frequently discovered by an adult child…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1040+ words) Troy, New York, kept the last birthing center in Rensselaer County. Trinity Health, the Michigan-based system that owns Samaritan Hospital, reversed its closure plan nearly a year after announcing it, following a campaign that pulled together the city's Republican mayor,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (725+ words) An Ohio woman scheduled for a minor gynecological procedure was told the day before that her doctor could no longer perform it in his office. A hospital system had bought the practice the previous year and required the procedure to…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (666+ words) The autonomous blood draw robot that cleared US regulatory review last month will not appear at American labs or clinics for some time. Vitestro, the Dutch company behind it, plans a multicenter US clinical trial before commercial availability and says…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1045+ words) Federal device regulators have issued an early alert covering a disposable breathing circuit used to deliver breathing gas to newborns, after the manufacturer told hospitals to pull affected hoses from where they are used or sold. The alert concerns the…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago   (807+ words) The federal safety study of mifepristone that could reshape how the abortion pill is dispensed in the United States has not been completed, and the agency's own public status page describes it as still moving through data analysis and peer…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (701+ words) Adults who currently smoked reported higher loneliness scores than those who did not, and their loneliness increased more over the following two years, according to an analysis of more than 50,000 people across 15 European countries presented in Barcelona. The analysis was…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (846+ words) The overall figure understates the problem. Researchers found the models backed down most often when the clinical picture was worst. In a textbook severe case, correct advice survived only 22 percent of the time. In a scenario involving a man who…...