Rating the quality of hospital care has become all the rage, despite the risk of consumers not really understanding what the ratings mean. Now www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov has detailed hospital rating information for comparison.

Patient satisfaction surveys reveal Saint Luke's metro facilities provide best hospital experience.

Bans on smoking at home may have greater influence on health status than those at work, according to a first-study-of-its kind study published in the May/June 2007 issue of The Journal of Urban Health (JUH) , a bi-monthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine.