Disease

Nine American tourists have died this year under mysterious circumstances in the Dominican Republic. Quite obviously, many are wondering if it's safe to visit the country.

One of the more common infections associated with overtreatment is C. difficile colitis, an infection of the large intestine, the colon.

It is estimated that 7.3% of the global adult population has some alterations in their metabolism resulting in hyperglycemia, an increase in blood sugar, not to the range we determine is diabetes, but heading in that direction, the individual with

With the announcement of CVS's HealthHubs, the synergy of data and business is rapidly coming to the health sector; health systems will become havens only for the severely acutely ill, the more complex, the expensive.

Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm where the atrium’s contractions are not synchronized to the contractions of the ventricle; the atrial chamber quivers more than contracts.

Twenty years before Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare juggernaut, there was and still is the Leapfrog group.

I live on the East End, that part of Long Island where the island forks into its north, agriculture, and fishing, and it’s south, more associated with the Hamptons, summer home for the beautiful people; but it was not always so.

Not all individuals have the same illnesses, and even for the same chronic diseases, how any patient is affected varies. In determining payments for care, Medicare introduced modifiers to gauge and report on the associated severity of illness.

The quotation is from Ron ‘Tater Salad’ White, a charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

President Jimmy Carter is recovering from surgery for a broken hip sustained after a fall at home.