Month: July 2025

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. View original article Contributor: Jordan Rau and Irena Hwang

Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get. View original article Contributor: Jordan Rau

Up to 60 percent of older adults live with persistent muscle pain, but there’s a lot you can do to ease that discomfort. View original article Contributor: Hallie Levine

Using a 2024 obesity framework, 18.8 percent of the adults previously been categorized as “overweight” now fit under the “obese” category, researchers said. View original article Contributor: Hannah Docter-Loeb

Despite a terminal cancer diagnosis, Kim Fellner had been doing well. Then, suddenly, she couldn’t breathe. View original article Contributor: Kim Fellner

A lot of people keep bad medical news to themselves or restrict it to a very small circle of confidants. Others just won’t shut up about it. Here’s how this writer handled it. View original article Contributor: Kim Fellner