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(University of Copenhagen) Refugee children have scant access to medical care and are particularly vulnerable to disease.

Fresh research results from the University of Copenhagen show that just a few hours of schooling a week may have a pronounced positive impact on their health not only in childhood but later in life when they achieve adulthood.

When Joclyn Krevat got her lifesaving heart transplant at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, she thought her surgery was covered by insurance. Then the bills arrived.

While some of the tiniest babies ever born -- under a pound -- grow up strong and healthy, many of the smallest do poorly and many do not survive even with advanced medical care.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Children on public insurance are being denied treatment by doctors at much higher rates than those with private coverage, according to an undercover study that had researchers pose as parents of sick kids seeking an appointment with a specialist....

LONDON (AP) -- More than 2 million babies are stillborn every year worldwide and about half could be saved if their mothers had better medical care, according to research estimates published Thursday in the medical journal Lancet....

LONDON (AP) -- More than 2 million babies are stillborn every year worldwide and about half could be saved if their mothers had better medical care, according to researchers' estimates....

(MedPage Today) -- As Japanese workers try to avert more damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and residents flee the area, doctors struggle to maintain basic medical services in the wake of the earthquake and resulting tsunami.

There are some insidious factors that come with electronic health information that can be difficult to identify and measure, especially when the human element is removed from health care by technology

Americans increasingly are treated to death, spending more time in hospitals in their final days, trying last-ditch treatments that often buy only weeks of time, and racking up bills that have made medical care a leading cause of bankruptcies.

Advance directives, which describe the medical care you want to have if you're incapacitated, are honored most of the time, a study shows.