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HENDERSON — February is Heart Month, and Maria Parham Health is holding a Healthy Heart Day heart fair on Thursday, Feb. 8, featuring information and resources to help the Henderson/Vance

Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside doctors are using an innovative new technology to transform how people with suspected coronary artery disease are diagnosed and treated.

I think Bill Self has the magic in a team to turn it around in the second half. And hes the master of the last two minutes, said Dr. Lyle Floyd Zepick. Zepick is a diehard KU fan who also happens t

Self missed the entire Big 12 Tournament and the opening round game against Howard due to medical issues he experienced last week.

Invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami werent any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedures. we want more tests. or at least we think we do. and thats the problem. because what we think is best for us often isnt. what the dartmouth group discovered is that the patients in the most costly regions where medicare spent more money on patients, those patients did not have better health ...

Time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami werent any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedures. we want more tests. or at least we think we do. and thats the problem. because what we think is best for us often isnt. what the dartmouth group discovered is that the patients in the most costly regions where medicare spent more money on patients, those patients ...

What the dartmouth group discovered is that the patients in the most costly regions where medicare spent more money on patients, those patients did not have better health outcomes, and, in fact, they were more likely to die. >> if you look at health care in america, youre twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in western countries with the same standard of living. youre two or three times as likely to get a heart catheterization or have a stent in your coronaries. weve set up a sys...

Medicare spent more money on patients, those patients did not have better health outcomes, and, in fact, they were more likely to die. >> if you look at health care in america, youre twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in western countries with the same standard of living. youre two or three times as likely to get a heart catheterization or have a stent in your coronaries. weve set up a system that often pushes physicians and hospitals in the entire health care system into doing...

Have better health outcomes, and, in fact, they were more likely to die. >> if you look at health care in america, youre twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in western countries with the same standard of living. youre two or three times as likely to get a heart catheterization or have a stent in your coronaries. weve set up a system that often pushes physicians and hospitals in the entire health care system into doing more. driven by these perverse economic incentives, we are do...

♪ >> if you look at health care in america, youre twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in western countries with the same standard of living, youre two or three times likely to get a heart catheterization or have a stent in your coronaries. weve set up a system that often pushes physicians and hospitals in the entire health care system into doing more. driven by these perverse economic incentives, we are doing a lot of procedures to people that they dont need. to a man with a h...