Hospitals are notorious for bad food. When patients eat poorly, it can increase the price of their stay by 30%. Malnourishment costs the US healthcare system billions each year. But offering good food isn’t easy. Many hospitals operate on negative margins. Some have a budget of as little as $4 per patient meal according to
When I moved from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico two years ago, with my husband and then-3-year-old son, we were firmly “one and done.” Life with a toddler in New York City was too hard; we spent weekends at chain-link fence-enclosed playgrounds that were either shadeless and sweltering in the summer or freezing and depressing in
The Federal Trade Commission is suing health giant Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing its customers’ medical and health information with advertisers and tech giants, such as Meta and Snap, as well as for misleading consumers about its privacy practices. The lawsuit is the federal consumer watchdog’s latest crackdown in recent years against health care
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. He died June 26 in Oklahoma and was the last polio patient in the United States to use the machine, his sister said. She was 78 years old. “They told him he wasn’t supposed to