U.S. hospital, doctor visits balloon, survey finds
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Hospital and doctor visits in the  United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years  and the most commonly prescribed medications are  antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday.
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Americans spend double what people in other industrialized countries do on health care, but have more trouble seeing doctors, are the victims of more errors and go without treatment more often, according to a report released on Thursday.
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More than 98 percent of US hospitals are now reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said on Thursday.
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A Valentine's Day balloon caused an electrical outage affecting more than 2,100 homes and businesses, power company officials said.
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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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Race appears to be a factor in how doctors communicate with their patients, according to a new study of primary care visits conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine.
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Fast food outlets are common inside  U.S. children's hospitals, leading more patients to consume  hamburgers and fries and encouraging them to view the fare as  healthier than it probably is, a study said on Monday.
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More patients visiting A&E are being seen quickly but there is still room for improvement, an official report says.
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A new breed of doctor who treats patients only when they are hospitalized is becoming more prevalent in Boston-area hospitals, according to a study published yesterday.
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USA - Medicare patients with chronic illnesses receive &quot;significantly different&quot; levels of treatment in hospitals ranked &quot;best&quot; by US News and World Report, a new study published Thursday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Maltin, Atlanta Journal
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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Emergency rooms at U.S. hospitals are   becoming stretched as patient visits increase while the number   of emergency facilities declines, a new report said.
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Influenza is sending more people to the  hospital in the United States each year and the flu season  appears to be getting longer, a government study said on  Tuesday.
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Some family doctors have five times the number of patients than others, research shows.
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The U.S. government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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The lumbering, low-tech observation balloon, first used on Civil War battlefields, is making a comeback in Iraq. But this time around it&#39;s packed with zoom-lens video cameras and thermal imagers.
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Doctors  and weather forecasters work together to cut hospital admissions for chest patients.