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Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns

(By JoNel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News) With a bullet in her gut, her voice choked with

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the country’s first drug derived from marijuana,

(By Alyssa Rege for Becker’s Hospital Review) A North Carolina resident visited High Point, N.C.-based Bethany Medical Center for a

When Medicare was first enacted in 1966, only about half of the elderly U.S. residents had health insurance according to

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) PHILADELPHIA — Feliciano Pagan stood at his front door when the MANNA food

(By Ankur Parikh for STAT) An old idea — using the body’s immune system to fight cancer cells, first proposed

Falls are dangerous and costly. The average number of days that a fall adds to a hospital stay is 6.3

In the recently released 2018 Medicare Trustees Report shows that Medicare isn’t exactly on solid financial footing but may be

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Although there were fewer drug shortages at the end of 2017, the number

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) An experimental therapy for type 1 diabetes, widely derided by mainstream diabetes researchers, lowered blood sugar