At about 4 p.m. ET, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that the House would not vote Friday on a GOP bill to repeal and replace major components of the Affordable Care Act.
The new website aims to answer questions parents might have about vaccinations, among other features, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Maryland, Michigan, and Washington, D.C.
The United States is the world's 14th happiest nation, according to the United Nations' fifth "World Happiness Report," which assesses a country's happiness level based on health, income, and other factors.
About 440,000 HACs occur in U.S. hospitals annually, costing nearly $10 billion—but some researchers believe that understanding a hospital's unique mix of microbes can help change that.
Middle-aged mortality rates are falling in most of the developed world—but not for white U.S. residents with a high school education or less. Now, Princeton University researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton are offering a new explanation for why.
A federal jury on Wednesday acquitted a pharmacist of 25 second-degree murder charges stemming from his ties to a deadly meningitis outbreak that was caused by tainted steroids, but convicted him on other charges related to the outbreak.
