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Avalere Health projects 26 states will not expand their Medicaid programs next year or are leaning in that direction, meaning 5.3 million fewer people will gain access to the program. In states with e… Read More

The American Cancer Society has given the nursing school at the University of Alabama a $720,000 grant for a four-year study of phone-based delivery of palliative care. "The patients who underwent thi… Read More

Researchers looked at data involving more than 11,000 men with back pain and found that those who received long-term opioid treatment were about 50% more likely to be prescribed erectile dysfunction d… Read More

The large tornado that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday destroyed the Plaza Towers Elementary School, where about 75 students and staff had huddled together for protection. Some students were killed, but o… Read More

Hospitals with the best rates of inpatient cardiac arrest survival also excel at preventing cardiac arrests, University of Michigan researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found nurs… Read More

A tornado struck Moore Medical Center near Oklahoma City on Monday, and patients were being transported to other facilities. All patients had been accounted for, and no injuries had been reported yet … Read More

A researcher in Sweden found that injecting a plasma protein at the site of chronic wounds in diabetic mice significantly improved the rate of healing. Yue Shen, a doctoral student working on his thes… Read More

The five-year cure rate for "slow Mohs" excision of lentigo maligna melanoma is near 100%, compared with a 20% recurrence rate with standard excision, dermatologist Ellen Marmur said at the Hawaii Der… Read More

In the first year following discharge, about 42% of heart failure patients and 26% of myocardial infarction patients died, while readmission rates were 70% and 51%, respectively, according to a study … Read More

People who succeed often have an "innate drive" that propels them forward, writes Joel Garfinkle, but what happens when that inner flame sputters? The key, Garfinkle writes, is to identify what's caus… Read More

The expected surge in newly insured patients through the Accountable Care Act, combined with the nation's growing and aging population, poses a major problem for the health care system: There are not … Read More

A study in Diabetes Care found changes in A1C were best predicted by reduced body fat and improved fitness in type 2 diabetes patients who underwent exercise training for nine months. Researchers said… Read More

CMS said its second round of federal Health Care Innovation Awards will offer $1 billion in grants for projects that can quickly reduce Medicare costs, improve care for patients with special needs and… Read More

Data from the Listening to Mothers III survey by Harris Interactive documented overuse of procedures such as labor induction and cesarean delivery among pregnant women, while beneficial services inclu… Read More

U.S. senators on Wednesday voted 91-7 to install Marilyn Tavenner as the first confirmed CMS administrator since 2006. Tavenner is a former health system leader and nurse and was secretary of health a… Read More

Surgical equipment noise, music and staff chatter in an operating room can impede surgeons' ability to understand what is being said, potentially leading to errors, according to a study published in t… Read More

Bioabsorbable coronary stents are a topic of great interest among interventionalists, says SCAI President-elect Dr. Charles Chambers, but there are still questions to be answered about the new technol… Read More

In Touch Health's Remote Presence Virtual Independent Telemedicine Assistant is a fourth-generation robot that can drive itself down hospital corridors instead of being controlled by physicians using … Read More

Makers of new electrical medical devices will need to demonstrate compliance with the ES 60601 3rd Edition, effective June 30, under a new FDA requirement. Compliance applies to submissions for 510(k)… Read More

Bipolar disorder -– where patients experience recurrent episodes of mood disturbance, ranging from extreme elation (mania) to severe depression -- is thought to affect roughly 2% of the world's popu… Read More

Does your work reflect a multidisciplinary approach to pain? The APS Scientific Program Committee invites submissions of symposium proposals for presentation at the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting Apri… Read More