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A study finds that gradually reducing the amount participants smoked gave them cravings and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached the quit day. Cutting off smoking completely showed greater results in success.
The unvaccinated children often acted as "patient zero," creating pockets of disease susceptibility, the new study finds.
Laws have been passed across the country making naloxone more readily available to everyone from cops to the local PTA. Meanwhile, in Seattle, bike cops will start carrying the drug to help combat overdoses in the city.
In the demonstration program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, patients can receive both palliative and curative care at select hospices, but advocates say the eligibility criteria should be looser. In other Medicare news, KHN reports on guidelines for end-of-life conversations that doctors can now bill.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said an investigation by Reuters triggered a review of how states were complying with the law, and that action was taken "where we found wrongdoing." In other news from Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats denounce Republicans for holding an abortion hearing while refusing to consider a Supreme Court nominee, and, in the House, a panel is pressing ahead with a proposed budget that includes cuts to health care despite conservative protests.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is launching a "fact-finding exercise" investigating the practice of a surgeon performing on more than one patient.
Members of a congressional oversight committee blasted Susan Hedman's testimony. "You screwed up and you ruined people's lives," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The recommendations are nonbinding, and initial versions have faced push back from critics who worry patients will not get the pain relief they need.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions from around the country.
News outlets report on health issues in Virginia, Florida, California, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Texas.
The Florida Legislature’s bill calls for a study of dental services in the state’s managed care system. If lawmakers take no action by July of 2017, the program would “carve out” dental by 2019 and revert it to the independent, prepaid system that existed before managed care. Meanwhile, in Kansas, a House subcommittee recommends delaying a plan to combine Medicaid waiver services.
Instead of treating chronic problems with medication, health care providers are increasingly prescribing exercise for their patients. In other public health news, pregnant women who traveled to Zika-infected areas are facing tough decisions at home, a new study finds that it might be discharged patients who are spreading "superbug" infections, and an oncologist talks about the choice she had to make after she discovered she was predisposed to breast and ovarian cancer.
In an ever-expanding industry, some worry that the residential programs are taking advantage of vulnerable patients.
A shortage of doctors able to prescribe anti-addiction medications means those who need help are struggling to get it. In other news, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill targeting the state's opioid crisis into law.
“While they say they won’t even hold a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities— they were eager to hold a hearing to attack women’s constitutional rights,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., will say when she takes the battle to the Senate floor. Meanwhile, in Indiana, abortion rights advocates ask Gov. Mike Pence to veto a bill that would ban the procedure if the fetus has a genetic abnormality.
Among other things, the new regulations would give patients slightly more warning before they get hit with surprise medical bills. In other health law news, one-third of Floridians say their health care has become less affordable in the two years since the Affordable Care Act was implemented.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a Washington-based fiscal watchdog, said the Republican presidential candidate's proposals would also drive up the deficit by as much as $500 billion over the next 10 years.
Justin Gover, chief executive of GW Pharmaceuticals, said the trial result “validates the proposition that cannabinoids can play a meaningful role in modern medicine.”
The rate is half of the 2014 spike, but Express Scripts, the company that issued the report, forecasts that the prices will only continue to climb for the next two years.
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