U.S. Lags in Several Areas of Health Care, Study Finds
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.
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As insurers, employers and average Americans grapple with skyrocketing health care bills, a study being published today has found that a small number of illnesses -- many of them preventable
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Heart attack patients in the United States are more likely to survive longer than those in Canada, in part because American doctors are more aggressive in reopening clogged arteries.
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Economic growth does not always lead to better health or lower child mortality, new research suggests.
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A handful of conditions such as mental illness, stroke, diabetes and lung disease accounted for much of the huge increase in health-care spending dating back to the late 1980s, US researchers said on Wednesday.
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LANCASTER, Pa.  - Excessive eating, smoking and  drinking by Americans was partially responsible for rising  health care costs causing a drag on the U.S. economy, Treasury  Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday.
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Americans are a bit taller and much heavier than they were in the early 1960s, says a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
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Cancer care across England is poorly coordinated, funding varies widely from one area to another and doctors are not referring patients for treatment quickly enough, a parliamentary report said Wednesday.
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Less than 1 percent of Medicaid spending went to health care for illegal immigrants, according to a study that the researchers said defied a common belief that they are a bigger drain on taxpayer money.
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Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one.
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Sinus and bronchial infections take a significant toll on the US economy, accounting for more than 30 million missed workdays every year, University of Pittsburgh researchers conclude from a new study.
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Most U.S. states have made little progress toward improving women's health and many have fallen behind as rates of obesity and diabetes continue to climb, a new 50-state report released on Wednesday showed.
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The tides are turning in the health  care industry, with managed care executives becoming bullish  about growth in 2005, while pharmaceutical executives are  rattled, a new survey shows.
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NEW YORK  - A growing number of Americans are devoting a large share of their paychecks to healthcare, and some are skipping medical care because of it, researchers reported Tuesday.
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Health care costs were a bigger drain on American wallets this year than in 2000, with 14.3 million workers spending more than a quarter of their income on medical care, according to a study by Families USA.
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Health care costs grew faster than the overall economy in the first half of this year, according to a study released Thursday. Although the increase