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February 11, 2024
by Alison Bennett
Medicare Advantage insurers may use artificial intelligence and similar tools to inform coverage decisions, not to make them, according to guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Read More..
by Nathaniel Weixel
Two studies cited by plaintiffs and a federal judge in Texas that purported to show the harms of the common abortion pill mifepristone have been retracted by the publisher of the scientific journal they first appeared in. Read More..
by matthew holt
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (“HHS”) is responsible for a wide range of activities relating to medical and public health. It has 60,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion annual budget with approximately $140 billion for discretionary spending. For the past 13 years, HHS has been spearheading a National Plan for addressing Alzheimer’s disease – with some notable successes. Read More..
by dmuoio
UCSF Health's $100M deal to acquire 2 CommonSpirit hospitals targets spring close. Read More..
by agliadkovskaya
SAMHSA's final rule makes COVID-era flexibilities permanent for opioid treatment programs. Read More..
by Caroline Hudson
Amazon plans to talk with affected employees in the One Medical and pharmacy divisions on Wednesday. Read More.. Subscription required.
by Hayley DeSilva
The agreement is the result of a data breach at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City involving the medical records of more than 12,000 patients. Read More…
by Nancy M. Williams
The preliminary results from three clinical trials administering gene therapy to address deafness from otoferlin mutations mark inspiring and incredible progress in hearing healthcare. Read More..
by Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
We’re halfway through the Medicaid “unwinding,” in which states are dropping people from the government health insurance program for the first time since the pandemic began.
Millions of people have been dumped from the rolls since April, often for procedural issues like failing to respond to notices or return paperwork. But at the same time, millions have been re-enrolled or signed up for the first time. Read More…
by Filip Timotija
The number of seizures of psychedelic mushrooms increased significantly over a five-year period, according to a new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Law enforcement seizures nationwide of “magic mushrooms” rose from 402 in 2017 to 1,396 in 2022. Alongside the rising number, the total weight of mushrooms, which contain the psychoactive component psilocybin, increased from 498 pounds to 1,861 pounds during the same time period. The total weight of seized mushrooms reached the highest point in 2021 with 3,400 lbs captured. Read More…
Listeria outbreak across more than 10 states linked to recalled dairy products: CDC
The Hill | Healthcare News
by Tara Suter
The CDC said the listeria outbreak has resulted in 26 illnesses, 23 hospitalizations and two deaths.
Rizo-López Foods recalled the dairy products because “they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes,” it said in a press release Tuesday. The products included in the recall are sour cream, cheese and yogurt sold under brand names Tio Francisco, Don Francisco, Rizo Bros, Rio Grande, Food City, El Huache, La Ordena, San Carlos, Campesino, Santa Maria, Dos Ranchitos, Casa Cardenas and 365 Whole Foods Market. Read More..
by Nathaniel Weixel
A new report released Tuesday by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) takes aim at the prices and executive compensation of three major drug manufacturers, previewing his lines of attack for when the companies’ CEOs appear at a hearing later this week.
In the report prepared by Democratic staff on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, longtime industry critic Sanders accused Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb of “ripping off the American people.” Read More…
Nutritionists are sounding the alarm on just how much your dietary consumption can affect your risk – or lack thereof – for cancer. A whopping 25% of the 18 million cancer cases in the U..S could be prevented by improving your nutrition. Read More…
by pminemyer
Healthcare employers aren't doing enough to protect nurses from violence in the workplace, according to a new report.
National Nurses United, a major union, polled (PDF) nearly 1,000 nurses working across the country and found that 81.6% had experienced at least one kind of workplace violence during the past year. Read More…
by Aishwarya Pillai
India is one of the top places in the world for medical treatment, not just in Asia. However, getting a medical visa to India can be challenging if you do not know and follow the correct criteria. This article will teach you everything you need to know about filling up the application form and obtaining a medical visa from Yemen to India. Read More…
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to for patients trying to escape medical-billing nightmares. Read More…
by Katherine J. Wu
In Arnold Monto’s ideal vision of this fall, the United States’ flu vaccines would be slated for some serious change—booting a major ingredient that they’ve consistently included since 2013. The component isn’t dangerous. And it made sense to use before. But to include it again now, Monto, an epidemiologist and a flu expert at the University of Michigan, told me, would mean vaccinating people “against something that doesn’t exist.” Read More…
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