Lawmakers Take Up Fallout From Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Over $1,000 for diabetes test strips? That’s what one patient was told he would have to pay during the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year, a lawmaker said at a…
Over $1,000 for diabetes test strips? That’s what one patient was told he would have to pay during the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year, a lawmaker said at a…
Matthew McGuire, PharmD, manager of pharmacy supply chain and automation at University Hospitals Health System, based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, likes to put the problems encountered in the intricacies of…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical decision-making tools has led to an update of the TRIPOD guidelines for reporting clinical prediction models. The…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research from King’s College London has found that spaces with a diverse range of natural features are associated with stronger improvements in our mental well-being…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly a half-million health workers who stand to benefit from California’s nation-leading $25 minimum wage law could be in for a rude awakening if hospitals and other…
SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from depression. The news may…
TOPLINE:A low-fat vegan diet — high in fiber and carbohydrates and moderate in protein — reduces insulin requirement, increases insulin sensitivity, and improves glycemic control in individuals with type 1…
A multi-pronged electronic health record-based population health management intervention failed to move the needle for slowing chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, a cluster randomized trial showed. Over a median follow-up…
All sex, race, and risk category groups appeared to be affected by the heart disease risk posed by elevated lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), according to pooled analysis of primary prevention studies.…
Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column…
Denis McDonough, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, told the House VA Committee on Thursday that progress on the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 – first introduced a year ago –…
Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Severe morning sickness in pregnancy, known medically as hyperemesis gravidarum, can negatively affect both maternal and infant health. A review published in Canadian Medical Association Journal…
Federal and state regulators aren’t doing enough to stop the growing problem of rogue health insurance brokers making unauthorized policy switches for Affordable Care Act (ACA) policyholders, say consumers, agents,…
Ron Harman King is CEO of Vanguard Communications, a healthcare marketing and practice management consulting firm, and author of “The Totally Wired Doctor: Social Media, the Internet & Marketing Technology…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A University of Sydney study investigating menu items on major online food delivery outlets and applications (apps) in Australia has found most advertised items are missing…
Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff April 13, 2024 The 24-hour news cycle…
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Africa’s most populous nation Nigeria has launched a “revolutionary” vaccine against meningitis, in what the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said was a world first.…
BUDAPEST — Low- to moderate-intensity physical exercise in patients with severe mental illness is linked to improved medication adherence, regardless of medication type or duration of illness, new research shows.…