A recent report highlights the disproportional high expenditures on U.S. healthcare and how America stacks up to comparable wealthy countries. The U.S. spent approximately $12,742 per person, whereas Switzerland, the second-highest spender, allocated $9,044 per capita. With the U.S. excluded, the average for comparable counties was...National News
New analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine demonstrates that life expectancy of American men is six years shorter than that of women.
The study analyzed life expectancy at birth trends, which decreased in the U.S. for the second consecutive year. The expectancy was 78.8 in 2019 and 76.1 in 2021. The report notes that the gap...
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first subvariant-specific "redesign" of the COVID-19 vaccine, with the rollout projected to begin as early as next week.
Each day, the U.S. records an average of 90,000 new infections of COVID-19 and 475 new deaths, largely driven by the COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BA.4 and...
A new report from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) highlights the way the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the declining health and growing inequality in the United States.
The Patients, Families, and Communities COVID-19 Impact Assessment from NAM summarizes the challenges facing health in America prior to the pandemic and...Top of The Day
The Commonwealth Fund released an updated comparative health care study showing the U.S. is spending more than the rest of the world with little to show for it.
The report relies on data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It compares US figures to those of 10 other high-income countries:...
