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Cancer treatment can destroy a patient's enjoyment of food, which can be dangerous if it causes them to stop eating entirely. Now doctors are teaming up with chefs to try to combat that side effect. In other news, women are getting unnecessary mastectomies at troubling rates and a body-builder chronicles her struggle with ovarian cancer.
The novel "Angel" program has a success rate of 95 percent compared with 50 to 60 percent for other programs.
The legislation, which had been set to take effect in the beginning of the year, would have required providers who oppose abortion to refer patients to other services, if patients ask for those options.
However, Rep. Tom Price, who has been nominated to be the secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration, is expected to weigh in on this issue, too. Also in Medicare news, a look at a new payment rule designed to reward doctors for coordinating care, an anomaly in coverage of kidney transplants, a nursing home company in Maryland draws scrutiny and new hospital payment details.
Reforming the beleaguered agency could be one of the toughest jobs in Washington.
The report from the Senate Aging Committee presents four case studies and identifies what are described as five “essential elements” of the business models used by drugmakers to exploit the market for their medicines: price gouging, a sole-source supply, the "gold standard," a small market and a closed distribution system.
The Democratic Governors Association wrote a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying the plan to repeal the health law would mean financial disaster for states. Meanwhile, some Republicans in the House are considering keeping some of the legislation's taxes in place.
There are about 400,000 more customers than there were at the same point last year, despite the threat of Republicans dismantling the law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical drug pricing.
Outlets report on health news from New Jersey, Georgia, Minnesota, Alabama, Kansas, Colorado and Florida.
Other hospital-related reports include staffing challenges for Kansas' state-run psychiatric hospitals; allegations about a California hospital's patient infections and worker conditions; and other news.
Two former state-appointed emergency managers are facing charges of false pretenses, conspiracy to commit false pretenses, misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty.
Other public health news stories cover developments related to a rise in mumps, a link between sleep apnea and heart failure, and fallopian tubes' role in ovarian cancer.
Although the country is in the midst of an addiction epidemic, there are many whose lives are helped by the painkillers.
A new report finds that states are not prepared to handle health emergencies.
“If you have a highly concentrated market and you have a merger, you go from bad to worse,” Northwestern University health care economics professor David Dranove said at an antitrust hearing. Meanwhile, Aetna and Humana wrap up the defense of their $37 billion acquisition plan in a separate case.
The move comes after a USA Today investigation reveals the rankings. In other news, ProPublica files a suit against the agency saying it failed to turn over information on Agent Orange.
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