Patients could in future be treated at home by hospital doctors under plans for a revolution in the way healthcare is delivered which are being published on Thursday. Hospitals will
In the U.S., the top 1% of patients ranked by their healthcare expenses accounted for 21% of total healthcare expenditures in 2010, with an annual mean expenditure of $87,570, according
NN’s Drew Griffin and Time magazine investigate what’s behind the high cost of medical bills in America. They find a family who was charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for
A recent New York Times article focuses on the humble I.V. saline bag used more than a million times a day in hospitals and emergency departments around the country. This
Tax credits to help low- and moderate-income Americans buy health insurance will become available in January under the health law, when for the first time, most people will be required
During a three-year period in seven metropolitan areas in the western United States, the emergency medical services system sent more than 85,000 injured patients to major trauma hospitals who didn’t
Critical care doctors at a major teaching hospital believe they provided futile treatment to about one in five intensive care unit patients, needlessly prolonging their lives. ICU doctors in the
A Utah entrepreneur hopes to cash in on American outrage over the high price of health care with an online tool that will allow consumers to share billing data and
Under health care reform, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, uninsured Americans will be required to have health insurance by March 31, 2014 or face a tax
The government of India won a landmark case earlier this year against the drug’s inventor, Novartis, by rejecting the company’s patent on a crystallised form of the drug, allowing generics
