As they say, location is everything. Hospital-based outpatient care is far more expensive than the same care provided in a physician's office. It's $2.7 billion more expensive, but why?
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Most dog owners know that chocolate is harmful to dogs. That said, a study shows Christmas is the most dangerous day of the year for them. And more bad news: dog treats may be making your little companion overweight.
The business of sleep continues to break new ground. To what end, that's hard to say. Here are some hi-tech sheets, mattresses, pillows and other products to consider, that one manufacturer and one NBA team say is worth added cost.
While scouting prospects continues to be a largely unpredictable business, even after more than a century, researchers in North Carolina may be onto something big. It's a hi-tech advance that could predict which players are best at an essential skill: getting on base more often.
Back from maternity leave, Ana Dolaskie shares her thoughts on why most resolutions fail, and key factors in the ones that succeed.
Toning and sculpting aren't just for your body anymore; the trend of Face Yoga is quickly catching on, and some say it really works to delay aging and erase years off your face. If it's free, what's the harm?
The rules governing customer risk and the responsibilities of Colorado ski resorts have placed the burden squarely on skiers and snowboarders. So in terms of skier safety, exercising greater caution on the slopes is now even more important than ever before.
The Winter Olympic Games are set to begin this week, but, the organizers have been thrown a last minute headache - well more of a stomachache, actually. Dozens of members of the security detail in the Olympic facilities have come down with norovirus or "the stomach flu." This is making for a nail-biter of a finish - waiting to see if any of the athletes are affected - and the competition hasn't even started yet!
Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened his mouth last week and made a fool out of himself. His suggestion that people in pain should "have an aspirin and tough it out" was insensitive, ignorant, and insulting. People who live with pain were furious. They have every right to be.
When David Stephan, a man who was convicted in his 19 month old son's death because he treated his son's infection with "natural healing" methods over medicine, was an invited speaker at a Wellness Expo, there was a loud, visceral reaction. The result? Some sponsors got nervous, pulled out and Stephan's speech was no more. Kudos to the pro-science community for a job well done.
There's no shortage of places to look for ways to help stop America's agonizing and ongoing school-shooting epidemic. And a recent study has identified one. It found that in homes where a child has mental health issues, only 1 in 3 gun owners take the recommended safety precautions to prevent unsupervised access when storing their firearms.
Standing desks are all the rage; after all, we all know sitting is bad for your health. But now, recent studies suggest standing desks could be the biggest sham ever. Say it ain't so!
Activists are simply winning the public relations battle when it comes to agriculture. Here's a way to change that.
A video of a woman playing the flute while undergoing brain surgery for tremors is something to see. Watching someone being awake enough to perform a skilled task under such conditions is captivating, to say the least.
K2, a dangerous synthetic cannabinoid product – also known as spice, synthetic marijuana, legal weed or fake weed – is wreaking havoc in Illinois and hospitalizing dozens.
In Illinois, synthetic cannabinoids have killed two and hospitalized fifty-six for extreme bleeding. This toll is expected to rise. Believing they are like "pot" or "marijuana" is the public's first mistake.
Stress incontinence is a significant health problem for women who have given birth. But we know little about its causes or how it develops over time. Here's a closer look at this concern.
After examining a quarter century of federal traffic crash data, researchers found a 12 percent higher incidence of a fatal accident taking place on April 20 after 4:20 pm, the unofficial start time of the drug's holiday.
Rumor has it, millennials don't bother with the flat sheet, and we just can't even.
The flat sheet isn't the only thing millennials have shunned, though. Here's a full list of all things killed off by the avocado toast eaters.
Mary Shelley popularized the work of Luigi Galvani, work that continues today. And while electricity does not reanimate the dead, bioelectricity – Galvani's legacy – may have a role in our embryologic development.
Here's some of what we've been up to in the past few days, in the media and around Washington, DC.
Dr. Robert Redfield, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control, voluntarily agreed to take a pay cut Monday after unjustified political forces surfaced. And he's doing so despite four decades of experience in infectious disease research, as well as a government provision enacted specifically to permit his present compensation to be offered in the first place. It's simply wrong.
We started a media firestorm in the Pacific Northwest, and we set the record straight on chemicals for an agricultural trade publication. And we also took a peek into a baseball dugout to see how statistical analysis – personally delivered to field managers by stat geeks – is continually reshaping the game.
A study from the Commonwealth countries indicates that it will take two weeks longer to get pregnant if you eat fast food. Huh? And you can save yourself a week or so by eating fruit, not vegetables. Really? And, no surprise, It goes without saying that this incomplete study came complete with grievous limitations.
With First Lady Melania Trump's hospitalization, public misperceptions about how long someone should be admitted have run amok.
First Lady Melania Trump underwent a "successful" embolization procedure for what was described as a "benign kidney condition." But if the condition is benign, why intervene?
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