Healthcare price growth significantly outpaces inflation

Healthcare prices continue to rise across the country, according to a new study. Over a five-year period, healthcare prices increased in 111 out of 112 metro areas analyzed by the Health Care Cost Institute. The outlier was Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C., where prices dropped 5% from 2012 to 2016, HCCI’s analysis of 1.78 billion commercial health… Read More »

Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Bipolar Disorder

In treating pregnant women with mood or anxiety disorders, we tend to focus primarily on the reproductive safety of psychotropic medications; however, it must be recognized that withholding or withdrawing pharmacologic treatment for depression or anxiety during pregnancy may carry some degree of risk. Untreated psychiatric illness in the mother cannot be considered a benign… Read More »

Conjoined twins build strength in Vic

Conjoined twins from Bhutan are playing with other children and building their strength at a Victoria retreat in the lead up to the marathon separation surgery. On Friday carers will offer some insight into how twin girls Nima and Dawa are doing at a retreat near Melbourne. The 14-month-old sisters were initially meant to undergo… Read More »