From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
Injuries to mothers during childbirth decreased significantly between 2000 and 2006. The number of mothers who experienced injuries while giving birth vaginally without the use of forceps or other instruments dropped by 30…

From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
Minorities and poor people find communicating with doctors more difficult.
Black and Asian patients were more likely than white patients to report communication difficulties with their doctors in 2005, according to the latest News…

From the federal Agency for Healthcare Research News and Numbers:

About two of every three adult Americans under age 65 covered by public insurance from 2005 to 2006 had at least one chronic illness, such as diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease, says the federal…

Drugs that affect your metabolism — lower cholesterol, control diabetes, weight control — topped the list for spending on prescription drugs in 2006.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported that those drugs accounted for $38 billion of the $208.1…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released some national numbers on cold weather deaths and injuries for 2006, the latest year it can count.
On record:according to AHRQ News and Numbers:
– 6,182 hospitalizations.
– 827 deaths in 2006.
– Men accounted for…

Considering what we wrote about with Victoria’s Secret skinny, skinny models, maybe it’s time for fashion designers to smell the coffee:

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports this week that, if Americans continue to plump as they’re doing…