Smaller hospitals says it's a conflict of profit over treating populations needing access to the less-invasive TARV heart-valve procedure. Big hospitals say it's about volume and experience.
A study finds that seriously ill patients need special attention, instruction and a human touch when they are discharged from the hospital into other settings.
An investigation of outpatient centers finds a patchwork of state rules allows deaths to go unexamined and doctors exiled for misconduct to keep working.
This article aims to create oral health awareness, explain how oral health issues have a catastrophic impact on the general health of elderly people, and stress the advantages of early assessments of oral health in the primary care setting.