Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning sang a duet with country singer Thomas Rhett at a gala to raise money for the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in St. Vincent, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Alaska, Indiana, and New York.
Money can buy happiness—but there comes a point where the costs associated with that extra income might stop paying off, according to a recent study in Nature Human Behaviour.
A new study in PLOS One suggests that removing barriers to midwives' practice might improve U.S. maternal and infant mortality rates, while helping to address a shortage of OB-GYNs that affects nearly half of U.S. counties, reports.
Another study has taken aim at the "obesity paradox," finding that people with cardiovascular disease who are overweight or obese are not living longer than their normal-weight peers—they're simply getting diagnosed earlier in life.
UnitedHealthcare this month announced that beginning in 2019, it will pass along the "overwhelming majority" of the rebates it gets from drugmakers to beneficiaries who take the rebated medications.
President Trump is calling for expanding and reforming U.S. mental health programs, including programs involved in identifying and treating individuals who might pose a threat to themselves and others, as part of its proposal to reduce gun violence in the country.
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