Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die - NYTimes.com

Not all hospitals are created equal, and the differences in quality can be a matter of life or death.

In the first comprehensive study comparing how well individual hospitals treated a variety of medical conditions, researchers found that patients at the worst American hospitals were three times more likely to die and 13 times more likely to have medical complications than if they visited one of the best hospitals.

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The Power of Simple Life Changes to Prevent Heart Disease - The New York Times

Billions of dollars are spent every year on medications that reduce the risk of heart disease — the No. 1 killer in the United States.

But some people feel powerless to prevent it: Many of the risk factors seem baked into the cake at birth. Genetic factors can have a huge impact on people's chances of dying of heart disease, and it has long been thought that those factors are almost always outside of one's control.

Recent research contradicts this, though, and that should give us all renewed hope.

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