News Room
September 1, 2010
The U.S. outspends all other industrial countries on health care, and yet we do not enjoy better health. Quite the opposite: an American baby born in 2006 can expect to live to 78—two years less than a baby born across the Canadian border...
May 1, 2010 | Health Affairs
PRACTICE: Durham Community Health Network in Durham, North Carolina, and its local and state partner institutions.
WHO AND WHERE: Durham Community Health Network, a public-private partnership providing care management for Durham County...
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Yet, the number of women dying in childbirth or within a year of giving birth has only increased, with 658...
In an unusual move, the chair of a Food and Drug Administration panel is defying a recommendation that his own panel made last week to endorse a powerful opioid painkiller, because he believes the drug represents a “danger” to public...
Something’s percolating at CMS – the agency that operates Medicaid and CHIP – with potential to connect more people to primary care and advance health equity.
In our complex health system, primary care knits together fragmented and...
