health care

The Green Mountain Care Board oversees Vermont’s medical facilities. It has been holding community meetings in the state’s 14 hospital regions to provide information and get feedback on transforming Vermont’s health care system.

New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts rank among six states found to have better-than-average health system performance among all racial or ethnic groups.

Congressmen Pat Ryan and Marc Molinaro, former electoral opponents, are part of a bipartisan effort to revise the Health Care Fairness for Military Families Act.

Renowned surgeon and historian Ira Rutkow has five decades of experience and has now written a remarkable history of surgery’s development—spanning the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. The new book is: "Empire of the Scalpel."

Albany non-profit BirthNet held a forum this month highlighting what it calls a medical disparity. Activists say racial bias is deeply embedded in local maternal and infant health care systems.

Renowned surgeon and historian Ira Rutkow has five decades of experience and has now written a remarkable history of surgery’s development—spanning the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. The new book is: "Empire of the Scalpel." There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually but few of us pause to consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about healthcare and the endless fascination with surgical procedures, most of us have no idea how surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Ira Rutkow is a general surgeon and historian of American medicine. He also holds a doctorate of public health from Johns Hopkins University. I spoke with him recently about how he came to write the history of surgery.

Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors and other health workers as become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to attend to those in need. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care. In "Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War," Leonard Rubenstein, a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities against health workers around the world, offers an account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal political and moral struggle to protect them.

The Adirondack Experience, previously called the Adirondack Museum, is holding a series of conversations on various topics affecting the Adirondacks. The…

Americans consistently identify the cost of health care as their number one financial concern. That’s especially true for the 155 million working…

Officials gathered in the Schenectady County town of Rotterdam today to discuss a new bill intended to provide state support for rural emergency…