Some hospitals are postponing elective procedures to preserve capacity as a severe flu season pushes admissions higher and fills emergency departments across the U.S. UnityPoint Health-Des Moines said ...

Learn the key difference between core and elective subjects. Understand their importance, examples, and how choosing the ...

UnityPoint Health in Des Moines is hitting pause on elective surgeries while it deals with a high number of patients. The medical center announced elective surgeries and procedures requiring overnight ...

Austin Wall left work with severe pain and knew something was not right. Wall, 42, a Caterpillar dealership parts coordinator in Irving, Texas, went to an urgent care clinic nearly a month ago and was ...

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As a growing number of hospitals pressed for resources due to the COVID-19 surge suspend elective surgeries, some healthcare professionals want the public to know exactly how important an “elective” ...

COLUMBIA – One local dentist's office is seeing almost 90% of their normal capacity before the COVID-19 pandemic and is back to doing elective procedures. All American Dental reopened completely when ...

For the last few years, Linda Rohn, 72, of Simi Valley, Calif., has known that she needed to have a total knee replacement for her arthritic right knee. But as her pain got worse, the coronavirus ...

On Wednesday, June 14, 2023, the IRS released its long-awaited initial guidance and proposed regulations regarding the newly created direct payment election methodology. The federal government created ...

For years, researchers have documented health differences between babies born vaginally versus by cesarean section—work that revealed the importance of exposure to the vaginal microbiome during birth.