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The changes instituted by the program had hospitals taking steps to better coordinate patients’ chronic conditions with nursing and rehabilitation facilities, primary care doctors and others inside and outside of the hospitals.
"This isn’t fixing the barrier to people getting jobs,” said Dr. Nathan Chomilo of Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity. “This is putting red tape around a program that we know helps children and families.”
The report was designed to assess the health needs of veterans in New Hampshire and Vermont. Meanwhile, a new study is going to examine if genetic testing can be utilized in the treatment of depression in veterans.
The fundraising may have violated National Institutes of Health policy, which prohibits employees from soliciting or suggesting donations, funds or other resources intended to support activities. In other public health news: colorectal cancer, Stephen Hawking, the human genome, second-hand marijuana smoke, maternal health, and more.
Along with the indictments, two Insys Therapeutics sales employees have agreed to cooperate with officials in the investigation, a signal that feds may be moving closer to building a case against executives at the drug company.
Some doctors say the app-based treatments are just like any pill they'd prescribe but others aren't so won over.
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani has kept a low profile as the No. 2 at the embattled Theranos. But now, facing fraud charges, he's going to be dragged into the center of attention.
Sharp premium spikes helped those insurers still in the marketplace actually make money on individual plans.
The National Academy of Sciences on Friday released the first in-depth report in more than 40 years about the state of science around abortion safety and quality in the United States.
Most major funding disputes have been settled, but lawmakers are holding firm over an abortion measure designed to make sure that Planned Parenthood receives a lion's share of federal family planning grants.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, of New York, was chairwoman of the rules committee when Democrats were in the majority in the House from 2007 to 2010. The panel controls the debate and amendment process on the House floor, and she used its power to advance the Affordable Care Act, which passed the House by just five votes in 2009.
President Donald Trump's plan to battle the opioid crisis includes a fresh public-awareness campaign about drug abuse, a research-and-development partnership between the National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical companies into opioid prescription alternatives, tougher sentences for fentanyl traffickers, and screening of all prison inmates for opioid addiction.
The review process of Dr. Robert Redfield will likely be thorough after the previous director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, resigned over financial conflicts of interest.
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Media outlets report on news from Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, California, Minnesota, Florida, Georgia and Massachusetts.
But even apart from the added dangers of opioids, advocates say there are too many older Americans relying on anti-anxiety drugs and sleep medications. In other public health news: genetic tests, mutations, our ancestors, heart health, CTE, adults on Adderall, and more.
A month after the Parkland, Fla. school massacre, officials still don't have an explanation for the event. Meanwhile, more states are creating anonymous tip lines to try to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again. And a wrongful death lawsuit in Connecticut could decide if gunmakers can be held responsible for mass shootings.
“Their dreams of future children were irrevocably destroyed," Adam Wolf, the lawyer for a family suing the San Francisco fertility center, said. "They entrusted their eggs and embryos after exhausting other avenues to have children.”
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