Stories
Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.
Peanut butter has long been a sought-after item for food pantries, thanks to its long shelf life and nutritional value. Mat-Su Regional Medical Center sees it as a critical tool in the fight against hunger within the community, in which an estimated 20% of residents experience food insecurity.
MU Health Care is just the second hospital in the U.S. to perform lung scans using xenon MRI, a groundbreaking technology that promises to greatly improve providers鈥 abilities to evaluate lung diseases like cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
Intermountain Health and Picterus AS, a Norwegian health technology company, are building an application using the smartphone鈥檚 camera that can determine bilirubin levels in infants accurately at home.
Recent research findings, authored in part by UW Medicine, showed that during western Washington鈥檚 2022 mpox outbreak, emergency response teams were highly accurate at identifying suspected mpox and providing same-day care.
Two Southeastern Pennsylvania health systems, ChristianaCare and Lehigh Valley Health Network, are launching a new era of health care with their opening of 鈥渕icro-hospitals鈥 that provide 24/7 emergency care with limited inpatient beds.
WashingtonThe Machines Arrive in Rural Washington: How AI is Helping Improve Health EquityThree Rivers Hospital is leveraging Washington state鈥檚 renowned skill in technology to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning in service of identifying an
CHI Health, has begun incorporating AHA鈥檚 鈥淧eople Matter, Words Matter鈥 series of posters into their facilities and to their workforce, with plans to showcase more in various ways,
Three new and upgraded health facilities opening in Arizona will provide Native Americans with better access to health care, and more are in the works.
Clinical trial participants are often the unsung heroes of medicine. Clinical research investigates new ways to prevent, detect and treat illness, and the courageous patients who participate in it play a foundational role in that process.