9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (889+ words) Rob Lowe has spent this year describing a family history that runs through three generations of women. His great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother all had breast cancer. Lowe described that history again this week on the CURE Talks Cancer…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1063+ words) The tool at the center of a growing national maternal health effort costs almost nothing and contains no technology. It is a silicone wristband stamped with the words "I Gave Birth." Hospitals hand it to patients at discharge and ask…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (977+ words) Hospitals that deliver babies will soon have to tell Medicare not just that they belong to a maternal safety network, but which one. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized the change on July 31 as part of its annual inpatient…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (804+ words) The Food and Drug Administration has opened a safety review of sevoflurane and other general anesthetics, and the phrasing of the announcement is doing a lot of work that headlines can easily flatten. For the overwhelming majority of Americans scheduled…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (534+ words) X-Men star Tyler Mane was diagnosed with male breast cancer after he and his wife noticed a hard lump on the left side of his chest while he was losing weight and trying to improve his health. Mane, 59, initially dismissed…...