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Some patients with cancer are more vulnerable than others, said Jeffrey Patton, MD, acting chief executive officer and president of physician services of OneOncology, as well as chief executive office of Tennessee Oncology, which is down to its last 14-day supply of personal protective equipment.

The president signed into law Wednesday the temporary Family First Coronavirus Response Act, which provides short-term paid sick leave benefits and longer-term paid family leave for some workers affected by the virus. However, it is not universal and provides for various exclusions.

The study noted that few oral immunotherapy (OIT) studies include patients with a history of severe reactions requiring epinephrine.

The temporary relaxation and expansion of CMS' telehealth rules, which allows the use of methods like FaceTime and Skype, is aimed at protecting both older patients and their providers from COVID-19, which has led to curfews, shuttered schools, deserted Main Streets, and ravaged financial markets.

Risk factors for suicidal ideation and behaviors in children aged 9 and 10, however, include psychological issues, conflict within the family, and increased use of computers on weekends, especially for boys.

The rules seek to end information blocking and give patients more control and choice over their data.

The authors said their study is the first to show that targeted treaments for patients with certain molecular alterations could be a possibility in pancreatic cancer.

A man in his 50s in Washington state with underlying health conditions became the first fatality from the coronavirus in the United States, and a healthcare worker and a resident from a nursing home in the state are hospitalized, the CDC said Saturday. It is the first reported case in a healthcare worker, the CDC said.

It’s not a question of if coronavirus becomes a worldwide pandemic, but when, the CDC said Tuesday.

As a whole, the public does not realize that certain health coverage benefits stem from the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Opportunities for precision medicine can be lost if clinicians do not perform biomarker testing, and payers may be part of the reason, according to Stuart Goldberg, MD, a hematologist/oncologist and chief of the Division of Outcomes and Value Research at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Workers with health insurance through their jobs saw out-of-pocket costs rise 14.5%, or $114, between 2014 and 2018, and also increased the use of psychiatry services and substance use facilities.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the journal, each issue in 2020 will include an interview with a healthcare thought leader. For the February issue, we turned to Gail Wilensky, PhD, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE.

Patients should have final say and control over their health data, HHS said Tuesday.

Atul Grover, MD, PhD, the executive vice president for the Association of American Medical Colleges, sat down with Representative Lauren Underwood, D-Illinois, for a conversation about her healthcare-related efforts during her first year in Congress representing people from a suburban rural district 2 hours from Chicago.

The evolution of data in healthcare in combination with policy advancements demonstrates how far the field has come but also brings up new challenges.

The drug-shock strategy was more effective for patients experiencing atrial fibrillation for the first time and for patients younger than 70 years, the researchers said.

CMS said it is expanding coverage of next generation sequencing (NGS) for use as a diagnostic for patients with germline breast and ovarian cancer, paving the way for Medicare beneficiaries to receive more personalized medicine. However, an advocate said the wording of CMS' decision could actually limit testing access for some women with breast or ovarian cancer.

Patients with early-onset Parkinson disease may have been born with disordered brain cells that mishandled dopamine for decades, according to a study released Monday.

While global public health officials grapple with how to screen international travelers for a spreading coronavirus and the 2019-2020 flu season has claimed the lives of 54 US children so far, hospital groups and physician groups warned this week in court filings about another issue they say is a public health emergency: The Trump administration’s public charge rule, which will defer immigrants, as well as citizens, from seeking healthcare.

Teprotumumab (Tepezza), a biologic, is a targeted inhibitor of the insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor..

To mark the 25th anniversary of the journal, each issue in 2020 will include an interview with a healthcare thought leader. Because January is our annual health information technology issue, we turned to Eric Topol, MD, of Scripps Research.

This week, researchers pinpointed the effects of shuttered automobile factories, releasing results in JAMA Internal Medicine that show plant closures from 1999 to 2016 were associated with increases in deaths from opioid overdoses.

Two new classes of drugs that offer significant clinical benefits for patients with diabetes and heart failure dominated medical conferences in 2019. Meanwhile, ovarian cancer guidelines were updated to add new therapies and the intersection of consumer health technology and cardiology also took over headlines. Read on for more.

A new analysis says allowing beneficiaries in Medicare Part D to benefit from drug manufacturer rebates shows that they could save $29 billion. But if another proposal is chosen, they would save less, and taxpayer costs would rise.

Through a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and a draft guidance for industry, the FDA will seek request for comment on 2 pathways. One would allow states to submit proposals to the FDA to allow the importation of small molecule brand-name medicines sold at retail pharmacies. The other is a draft guidance for industry, which would let manufacturers import the same versions of FDA-approved drugs they now sell in foreign countries.

As CMS prepares to move forward with new models of value-based cancer care, a radiation oncologist, speaking at the Institute for Value-Based Medicine®, discussed her findings regarding whether accountable care models had an effect on cancer care spending.

Coverage from the Institute for Value-Based Medicine® session held in Nashville, Tennessee.

Seema Verma, the CMS administrator and one of the last original high-level appointments by President Donald Trump still with the administration, faces her first call for resignation amid reports she sought taxpayer reimbursement for stolen uninsured jewelry during a work trip.

Here are 5 things to know about genetic testing in cancer care.