Outliers has to admit, we love political satire. So when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sat down last week with a master of the form, Jon Stewart, on “The Daily Show,” we had to tune in. The former Kansas governor may not have expected the series of federal health policy fastballs she faced, but she managed to avoiding whiffing on all but a couple of them.
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Street gangs have long been known for bringing illicit drugs, unregistered guns and territorial graffiti to city streets, but an academic researcher says they're an efficient vector for another social ill: HIV.
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A jury has ruled that Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, Okla., is required to pay back a $500,000 donation from country musician Garth Brooks as well as another $500,000 in punitive damages after a dispute about how the money should have been used.
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“Might as well eat that cookie.”
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A person really can die of a broken heart, or at least the risk of a heart attack increases by roughly 21 times within 24 hours for a person who loses a loved one.
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Imagine the surprise of one New York resident who opened a hospital bill and saw he was being charged $44.8 million for a three-week hospital stay to treat pneumonia.
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America's hospital compliance departments are staffed by stressed-out professionals who often jerk awake at night from the anxiety of monitoring all of their employers' problems and potential problems. And it turns out they're tired of it.
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Publicity was inevitable when two of the biggest names in popular music, Jay-Z and Beyonce, entered Lenox Hill Hospital this month for their blessed event.
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People search the Web for health information so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are using social media to raise money for medical expenses.
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The scenic views of Chicago's famous skyline available from the new 14-story tower that now houses Rush University Medical Center just weren't artsy enough for hospital officials.
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Even people who think caviar is to die for might lose their appetite when it's stored in a hospital morgue. But that's where police in St. Petersburg, Russia, found a huge stash of the delicacy recently—385 pounds stored in the refrigerated space where cadavers are kept.
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Outliers knows rural hospitals often struggle to hang on to physicians and other medical staff.
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When Outliers watches dancers gyrating in music videos for artists such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Beyonce, one question never fails to pop into our mind: Do those performers have healthcare benefits?
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One of the many year-end lists Outliers saw recently takes an interesting look back at the past 12 months in science news—naming the top five retractions made by science journals in 2011.
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A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the past five years through free sperm donations to childless couples he meets on the Internet—and he is now in trouble with the federal government.
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Nagging young adults about excessive drinking might actually work—that is if the nagging is done via text messages.
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