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Cardiovascular health spending has tripled, but death rates are rising in major Hampton Roads cities

  • WHRO

By Yiqing Wang/WHRO Cardiovascular care has become more advanced over the past two decades, giving doctors new ways to prevent deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other conditions. But a new national study found those advances have come with rapidly rising costs while improvements in cardiovascular death rates have largely stalled. The analysis, published in the Journal […]

Nevada

Prescriptions for nutrition: Nevada program connects food banks to health care

  • Jeniffer Solis

For families across northern Nevada, fresh groceries can mean the difference between costly health outcomes and fewer trips to the emergency room.  Poor nutrition remains one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease and other health disparities in the U.S., according to health experts. Early research also indicates that “food as medicine” initiatives including […]