Hospitals' average prices for commercial payers only slightly distanced themselves from Medicare rates from 2012 to 2019, although broad variations spotted between individual geographic regions ...

Payment reforms targeting specific high-cost geographical areas would be ineffective, according to a report by the National Institute for Health Care Reform. Analyzing key inferences in geographic ...

Populations that have historically been isolated from each other are expected to differ in some heritable features. This divergence could be due to drift (and other mechanisms of neutral evolution) or ...

Pre-existing mental illness and guideline-concordant treatment for breast cancers among older women. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Taxonomy, geographic variation, and population genetics of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans / Benoît Goossens ... [et al.] -- The functional significance of variation in jaw form in orangutans / Andrea ...

Researchers found significant geographic variations in concussion diagnoses in United States emergency departments -- with the highest rates in the South and lower rates in the Midwest and Northeast.

Vol. 103, No. 1, SPECILAL ISSUE: EVOLUTIONARY INSIGHTS from studies of GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION (January 2016), pp. 86-98 (13 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Theory predicts that limited gene flow between ...

Anemia significantly impacts global public health, with over 571 million women at risk of adverse health outcomes due to iron deficiency and other causes. This nationwide, population-based study in ...