Erin and Abby Delaney, joined at the head since their birth in 2016, were successfully separated at 10 months at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
To better manage patients' chronic conditions, Cleveland Clinic runs seven nurse-led Chronic Care Clinics that take a team-based approach helping patients stay out of the ED, according to the Clinic's Consult QD.
"Big Chocolate" has dedicated millions of dollars to nutrition science aimed at convincing the public that dark chocolate is healthy—even though the evidence isn't very strong, Julia Belluz reports for Vox.
Intermountain Healthcare CEO Marc Harrison on Thursday announced the system is replacing its geographically defined administrative regions with a system-wide structure that encompasses community care and specialty care divisions, Alex Kacik reports for Modern Healthcare.
Pollution was responsible for more than nine million premature deaths—16 percent of all deaths—worldwide in 2015, according to a report published Thursday in The Lancet.