Mary Caffrey

Coordinating mental health and treatment of chronic disease has gained traction since the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Medication adherence among patients with chronic conditions is estimated to cost $100 billion in North America.

The announcement said the collaborative seeks to raise the standards of care, address poor health statistics and find savings.

The report comes in a year of increased attention to the global obesity and diabetes crisis.

The mission is to eliminate daily insulin injections as well as complications for persons with type 1 diabetes.

The FDA seeks a nationwide ban on indoor tanning among those under 18. Right now, a patchwork of laws bar teens from indoor tanning in some states and require parental consent in others.

When patients cannot understand discharge instructions, it's questionable whether it's fair to penalize them when patients return to the hospital.

The update calls on primary care practices and health plans to have places to send those patients who screen positive for depression.

States that have not expanded Medicaid are seeing the fallout in hospital budgets and in local governments that must make up difference for those who fall in the coverage gap.

Researchers found that physicians often seized the "opportunity" to start dialysis if patients were in the hospital for other illnesses.

The profile of high-cost patients in a Massachusetts ACO differed greatly, depending on their enrollment in Medicare, Medicaid, or a commercial plan.

The program seeks to reach an estimated 86 million Americans who have prediabetes, almost all whom don't know they have it.

The study found a stronger association than researchers expected; it appears that risky behavior in one area implies risky behavior elsewhere.

More that a year after Congress first delayed upcoming rules on salt and whole grains, a new agreement takes the rougher edges off the school lunch program while preserving current limits on sodium. But it opens the door for a lobbying frenzy at USDA on "a la carte" foods.

The new rule has implications for personalized medicine, because having access to records helps tailor treatments for everything from cancer to chronic conditions.

The University of Colorado study adds to the growing concern that sleep deprivation is connected to rising rates of diabetes and obesity.

A review of WalletHub's list of the least expensive states to smoke shows there's a definite relationship between the cost of lighting up and high rates of smoking among adults, based on CDC data.

Each month of delay costs Iowa $8 million in savings that the Branstad administration assumed in the state budget.

Warning labels on soda might have less consumer resistance than taxes or portion limits, the study found.

Millions of unpaid family members care for elderly parents or relatives. But as baby boomers age, the government faces a quandary because there will be fewer adults age 45 to 64 available to fill that role.

Last year, an FDA advisory panel called for an updated label for saxagliptin, but the agency is still gathering information.

New Jersey's death rates from heroin are 3 times the national average, which have already quadrupled in the past decade. Chris Christie has won praise for his approach to drug addiction while campaigning for president.

Rates of uninsured dropped faster than almost anywhere in the nation, but Kynect is part of "Obamacare," and the new Republican Governor Matt Bevin has vowed that it must go. Advocates have a lot of questions about how hard-to-target populations will be reached and whether grant funds will have to be repaid.

The kit began with a petition from an 11-year-old girl with T1D who wanted a doll that looked "just like me."

The state's new secretary of Health and Hospitals said she will need to hire 248 workers to replace those let go under former Governor Bobby Jindal if her agency is to enroll all those expected to pursue coverage under expansion.

The guidelines show the influence of lobbyists, raising questions about how they will be created in future cycles. They will next be updated in 2020.

The findings on salt intake were timed to coincide with the release of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Last February, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee trumpeted its recommendations to promote sustainability and curtail consumption of red and processed meat. After a year of intense lobbying, neither item made survived the final cut in the 2015 report released today.

The University of North Carolina researchers are the first to connect the size of social networks to health measures such as high blood pressure, inflammation, and waist circumference.

The trials would involve the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Harvard's Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science