Healthcare Review

CHICAGO-Four national medical organizations are teamed up to raise awareness during National Dog Bite Prevention Week, May 15-21. It’s estimated that 4. 7 million people are bitten by dogs every year. Yet most dog bites are entirely preventable through training, proper control of dogs, and education.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Society of [...]

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Uninsured Play Relatively Minor Role in Increased Use of Emergency Departments
WASHINGTON, D.C.-While there is a common perception that emergency department crowding is driven primarily by uninsured people, most of the growth in emergency department volume between 1995 and 2008 was driven by insured people, Peter Cunningham, Ph.D., a senior fellow at the Center for Studying [...]

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