The media last week caught wind of a series of studies that suggested cellphones were causing young people to grow hornlike bone spurs from the back of their skull, but experts caution that the study's findings have been overhyped.
Employer health care costs are expected to reach a four-year high in 2020, in part due to rising prescription drug prices—and that is prompting many employers to re-think their approach to health insurance, according to a PwC Health Research Institute report.
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The United States over the past century saw a 70% decline in deaths from heart attacks and strokes, but progress has stalled in recent years, and heart attack deaths are actually rising among middle-aged U.S. residents.
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The Trump administration had demanded that PatientsLikeMe—an online service that helps patients find other people who share their health conditions—find a buyer due to growing trade tensions with China, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Florida, Massachusetts, and Mississippi.