Study indicates improved health care value cannot be achieved by hospital mergers and acquisitions alone

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mergers and acquisitions of U.S. hospitals and health systems rarely improve the quality of care delivered or result in lower health care costs and prices, according…

Child finds a micro-mosaic cross medallion during school trip

During a school trip to the Ein Karem neighborhood of Jerusalem, ten-year-old Nehorai Nir stumbled upon a cross medallion crafted in the intricate micro-mosaic style. The medallion, dated to 100–200…

Children can be more vulnerable in the heat—here’s how to protect them this summer

by Wen-Qiang He, James Smallcombe, Natasha Nassar and Ollie Jay, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Extreme heat is increasingly common in Australia and around the world and besides making…

Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting—three strategies to help you attain the good life

Credit: Hachette Book Group Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get…

Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries

Credit: Australian Government, Canberra Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists. Nutrient…

FDA approves Tryngolza as adjunct to diet for familial chylomicronemia syndrome

Tryngolza (olezarsen) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an adjunct to diet to reduce triglycerides in adults with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), which can lead…

Screen time these holidays doesn’t need to be a bad thing

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With five weeks of school summer holidays (that’s around 25 days of weekday activities to organize), being online is a major attraction for most kids and…

We don’t all need regular skin cancer screening—but you can know your risk and check yourself

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia has one of the highest skin cancer rates globally, with nearly 19,000 Australians diagnosed with invasive melanoma—the most lethal type of skin cancer—each year. While…

Infections, malaria, malnutrition behind DR Congo deaths: WHO

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Malaria and common respiratory infections, compounded by malnutrition, caused an hitherto unexplained spate of deaths in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization…

Stepwell discovered near the Banke Bihari Temple in Chandausi

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 400-square-metre stepwell near the recently discovered Banke Bihari Temple in the Laxman Ganj area of Chandausi, located in the Sambhal district in the…