What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that ...

Patients living in poor neighborhoods are more likely to have worse post-surgical outcomes even if they’ve got insurance coverage, according to a study published Feb. 7 in JAMA Surgery. Paula K.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of heart disease risk factors ranged from 1.4% to 17.5% in people living in extreme poverty. The ...

Your two-part series on the plight of the ski bum inspired this letter (HCN, 10/25/04: As the town hollows out, one Aspen neighborhood thrives) (HCN,.11/8/04: A new breed of ‘ski bums’ is anything but ...

More than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an analysis by the health research site KFF, the highest number in the country. The ...

A team of researchers found individuals living in poverty may be at increased risk of bloodstream infections, according to research presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 41st Critical ...

Out of 97,132 children with cancer, 12.63% at the time diagnosis lived in neighborhoods that had high rates of poverty for the previous 30 years. These children faced a 26% and 15% higher risk for ...

What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? There's a growing body of research that suggests economic programs that give money to very poor people can have major health ...

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that... Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in ...

The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that tracks social programs for the poorest half of the population — ...