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"I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity, and there is nothing you can do about it," Bill Gates said. "It feels a lot like you’re experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew."
The app lets law enforcement officials track overdoses in real time, a rarity in the data-starved landscape of the opioid epidemic. Media outlets report on the crisis out of New York and Massachusetts as well.
Experts hope the extra transparency, though, will change Americans' behavior as consumers. In other news on medical costs, the toll of the Las Vegas shooting, Medicare billing and virtual doctors.
The Department of Veterans Affairs pays benefits to about 5 million people, but more than 470,000 veterans have been denied and are appealing. Those appeals can be mired in bureacracy for years. Also in the news, an Arizona-based company that oversees care for some veterans is hoping to extend its contract -- even as it's a target of a federal grand jury investigation.
The pill has sensors that alert doctors to when patients take their medication. But some warn the device could breed mistrust.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is once again calling for lawmakers to include the repeal of the health law's individual mandate in their tax plan.
Tennessee Farm Bureau Health Plans is still allowed to use patients' health status to determine their rates and eligibility, which is illegal elsewhere under the Affordable Care Act. In other news, The New York Times looks at how red states have been subsidizing blue states' health insurance for years.
A California state law requires pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion options to its patients. The centers say the law violates their right to free speech by forcing them to convey messages at odds with their beliefs.
President Donald Trump, in announcing the nomination, says Alex Azar will be "a star" at lowering drug prices, but his ties to the industry raise immediate concerns from critics.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
President Donald Trump, in announcing the nomination, said Alex Azar's would be "a star" at lowering drug prices.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Media outlets report on news from Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Tennessee, California, Texas and Ohio.
A look at six common practices that have their roots in war-time care. In other public health news: falling, Alzheimer's, ankle replacements and racism.
A Stat and Boston Globe investigation found that these workers are bused into these facilities and can be cut off from their family and friends. “I felt like a prisoner,” said Michael Barone, a special education aide in a New Jersey public school. In other news: scientists try to find ways to combat chronic pain without opioids; experts are trying to figure out how people with chronic pain can be treated with opioids but avoid addiction; and more.
The credit reimburses drug developers for half of their research costs on treatments meant for diseases with patient populations fewer than 200,000 people.
Tom Price stepped down from the top position at the Department of Health and Human Services after information came out about his use of taxpayer-funded private jets. But the investigation didn't end with his resignation.
The governor says he won't implement the expansion approved by voters in a referendum this month unless lawmakers fully fund it. Elsewhere in the news, other states consider the Maine experience while considering their own voter referendums on expansion, one family in Iowa bemoans the experiences trying to get specialized care for their son from his Medicaid managed care plan, West Virginia officials consider work requirements for Medicaid enrollees and health care jobs are at stake as Ohio cuts reimbursement rates.
Experts have said that paying doctors for quality care instead of just the number of appointments they take would help rein in burgeoning medical costs. But the Trump administration wants to slow efforts to shift toward that model.
The high numbers even after the Trump administration slashed the outreach budget for sign-ups surprised experts.
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