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Federal health officials do not inform consumers about severe safety violations in hospitals that specialize in physical rehabilitation. Nor does Medicare impose fines as it does for nursing homes, or provide easy-to-understand five-star ratings as it does for general hospitals, according to an investigation by KFF Health News and The New York Times.  Medical rehab

The irradiation station at the Bronowice Cyclotron Center. Ph.D. student Paulina Stasica-Dudek from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences presents the detector used to measure the quality of the proton beam. Credit: IFJ PAN Modern methods of radiotherapy would fight cancer more effectively and safely if treatments could be planned

Last year in Massachusetts, after finding lumps in her breast, Jessica Chen went to Lowell General Hospital-Saints Campus, part of Tufts Medicine, for a mammogram and sonogram. Before the screenings, she asked the hospital for the estimated patient responsibility for the bill using her insurance, Tufts Health Plan. Her portion, she was told, would be

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and delivery nurse. Sure enough, when the anesthesiologist pricked her belly with something sharp to test whether the anesthesia had

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(iStock/Getty Images) LISTEN: Federal law entitles patients to interpreters if they don’t have a strong grasp of English. KFF Health News correspondent Vanessa G. Sánchez appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” on July 9 to explain why some Trump administration policies are leaving patients fearful to ask for language services.  Patients need to communicate clearly with