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Why is it so hard to find an auto mechanic these days?

Don't ignore that 'check engine' light much longer—it could take a while to find someone to fix your car. Here's why.

8 Tips for Avoiding a Messy Kitchen When Cooking

Struggling to quit sugar? You might not be sleeping enough

Levels of insomnia can influence the region of your brain that regulates food intake.

Has health care lost its humanity?

Hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, start-ups with cool apps, and many more are all trying to profit off the health care system

Disease Care or Health Care?

Chiropractors provide health care. They concern themselves with interference to the system of the body that controls all functions—the nerve system. Vertebral subluxations cause interference to t…

Housing is Health Care—and Health Care Can Build Housing

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial equity—and the solutions.

What Drives Innovation in Health Care?

Innovation is in vogue in many industries including health care. But what exactly is innovation? That is the issue hospitals and academic medical centers are g…

How to prepare the health care system for an aging population

Taking a look at hospital discharges is one method researchers are using to understand what shifts in an aging population could mean for the health care system.

Paying too much for your Health Care?

Research shows that as consumers are getting savvier about shopping for health care, some are finding a curious trend: More hospitals…

Choosing quality health care every step of the way

It can be a bit intimidating to choose a hospital for surgery or to make plans for when you’re discharged. Whenever you or a loved one with Medicare moves from one health care setting to another, …

Is There a Right to Health Care?

Saying people have a right to health care is based on a conceptual confusion.

Is Your Health Care Compromised?

More than one in six hospital beds is Catholic-owned or –affiliated, and millions of people rely on Catholic healthcare each day in the U.S. Whether they are seeking routine or life-saving medical care, are their options more limited than would be offered at a secular facility? The newly released report, Is Your Health Care Compromised? …

Why is collaboration missing in health care?

Collaboration by health care professionals is an essential element.

In the hospital? Know your health care team and ask them lots of questions

So annoying, right? All those different health care professionals you talk to when you are in the hospital. All you want to do is get answers from "the" doctor.

Perceptions of Inclusive Work and Learning Environments in Health Care Organizations

This qualitative analysis of health care student and professional responses to questions about inclusion and respect in respondents’ hospitals and health schools describes factors influencing their perceptions and strategies to improve inclusion and retain a diverse health care workforce.

6 steps from drawing board to health care website

Learn what needs to happen for your hospital or health care organization to have its own site.

Attacks on health care questions and answers

What to look for in a health care proxy

A health care proxy, also sometimes known as an agent or the person named in your healthcare power of attorney, is going to make decisions for you when necessary. Using a medical power of attorney is a very common part of estate planning. You get to select the person who can make medical choices if

13 tips for depressed doctors who need confidential mental health care

You are unlikely to be guaranteed 100 percent confidentiality unless you see a psychiatrist who keeps locked-in-safe paper charts (with a fake name) and claims no idea who you are if subpoenaed by the board. You'll need to always pay cash, and get meds filled at an out-of-state (or out-of-the-country) pharmacy. You'll need to keep your mental health completely separate from your employer, med board, hospital…

Five Things You Don’t Know About Health-Care Reform

Insurance sign-ups are just around the corner for millions of Americans under health-care reform, yet there’s still much people don’t know about this landmark legislation, particularly those changes occurring over the next decade inside hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices.