After the birth of his son Samuel, Ryan Grassley was surprised by one charge on his hospital bill: $39.35 for “skin-to-skin contact” when his wife held their newborn after a C-section.

Birth control pills have long been associated with giving women depression, but new research from the University of Copenhagen has confirmed it, leaving physicians and patients with a sobering reality, reports The Guardian.

For smokers, physicians often recommend one of the best ways to immediately improve their health: stop smoking. But for the smokers (and the nonsmokers they live with), it could take months to reap the full benefits of eliminating tobacco use, reported the New York Times. 

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) which have contracts with commercial payors beat Medicare and Medicaid-only ACOs on several measures of performance in a study published in the October issue of Health Affairs.

In a deeply divided political climate, party or candidate affiliation can seemingly tell a lot about a person—or even determine what they might say or how they might act. Apparently even physicians aren’t immune, according to Yale researchers, the Washington Post reported.

Engineers from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle have developed peptides able to transmit data from biological elements to artificial tools, reducing the need for invasive materials like metals and plastics, according to a report published Sept. 22 in Scientific Reports.

Brain training applications, often called brain games, have become ubiquitous on smartphones and tablets. These apps promise to improve your cognitive abilities by playing just a few minutes a day, but a pair of letters from two groups of scientists have sparked a debate on those promises.

Valencia Technologies, developers of medical devices, has received approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational Device Exemption to being a study on its eCoin System for the treatment of drug-resistant hypertension.