"What hospitals are doing is observing the content of communities around them," observes the senior vice president for the American Hospital Association. "It's critical to the long-term success of the hospital."
It's time to give new mothers a break. About breastfeeding, that is. It is well-known that breast milk provides newborn babies with better nutrition and better long-term health benefits than formula.
The potent cancer drug Gleevec, used to combat leukemia and some gastrointestinal cancers, may be useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis, according to a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
After two days of railing the trails in Bootleg Canyon, most Interbike attendees are ready to get out of the sun. Some are battered and some are bruised, but most are just looking forward to a day without dust and sweat.
Engorgement is a painful, yet common problem in the first days postpartum when your body is establishing a milk supply. Here are some tips that can help to relieve your discomfort.
Kareem Abdullah Mahdi understands few English words. Some he learns during the days spent next to his son's hospital bed. He learns "plasma" as he watches nurses hook bags filled with the brown-tinted liquid up to IV tubes that run into his son's arms and legs.
A woman's young age, extensive surgery and whether she suffered severe, post-operative pain are risk factors for developing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery, a University of Rochester study found.