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The report found that hospitals have little financial incentive to offer long-acting contraception right after birth if it is not covered separately. Family planning services are not part of standard quality measures, so it's hard to track how well providers are doing.

A new study has found that patients with early stage type 2 diabetes (T2D) are more likely to have structural abnormalities in the brain and cognitive difficulties, particularly if they are overweight or obese.

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While the report documents the shortage of DSME programs in rural areas, it does not address the reimbursement challenges that confront the use of telehealth to reach underserved groups.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted 14-9 to approve the nomination of Scott Gottlieb, MD, to lead the FDA. He will now need to be confirmed by the full Senate to become FDA commissioner.

While there are many hurdles to overcome before the technology could be ready for commercial use, the experiment shows what could be possible for people living with diabetes.

Second primary malignant neoplasms (SPMs) are a well-known late effect after cancer, and a new study has found that they are more deadly among children and young adults than older adults.

The study from King's College of London is the latest to sound the alarm about rising incidence of type 2 diabetes among youth.

In a case that serves as a cautionary tale of the consequences of lax health data security, HHS announced that wireless health services provider CardioNet has agreed to pay $2.5 million after its insufficient data protection led to personal health information being stolen.

A study evaluating a patient-reported outcomes measure tool in patients who had undergone colorectal surgery recommends using the tool for preoperative counseling prior to surgery.

The FDA announced yesterday it had issued warning letters to 14 companies peddling a total of over 65 products falsely claiming to cure or treat cancer. The agency’s forceful stance seemed intended to raise awareness among vulnerable consumers as well as discourage other potential instances of fraud.

Will bundled payments be implemented quickly or slowly? Will they be voluntary or mandatory? There's disagreement about what the ongoing movement toward accountable care should look like.

A new report published by the Urban Institute suggests that CMS’ Oncology Care Model could be substantially improved by incorporating a formal framework for shared decision making between patients and oncologists.

Research over the past decade has found connections between poor sleep and obesity, but this is the first study to examine the connections among bedtimes in young children, emotional self-regulation, and obesity later in life.

Eli Lilly and Company has announced that abemaciclib improved progression-free survival (PFS) when combined with an aromatase inhibitor (AI), compared with AI alone, in patients with breast cancer.

A study published in Cancer Medicine shows that rates of gallbladder cancer have been declining since the 1970s among men, but not for women. It also found that late-stage cases of the cancer have become increasingly common.

The suit comes after Mylan has already faced hearing in Congress and investigations from the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

The 2017 National Health Security Preparedness Index, released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, indicates that the United States is slowly becoming more prepared to handle public health catastrophes, but some states are still lagging behind.

A study in Journal of Medical Internet Research sought to discover how technologies could encourage daily walking in this population. The researchers developed 3 prototype apps using different persuasive technology design principles: dialogue support, primary task support, and social support.

The most common modifiable behavioral risk factors identified in the study are all treatable, suggesting that prevention could go a long way toward reducing their impact.

The University of Connecticut has initiated recruitment for a phase I trial to test the safety and efficacy of OncoImmunome, a personalized vaccine designed to prevent relapse in patients diagnosed with Stage III or IV ovarian cancer.

A second biosimilar to infliximab, marketed as Remicade by Johnson & Johnson, has received FDA approval. Infliximab-abda (Renflexis) was developed by Samsung Bioepis/Merck and has been approved for multiple indications.

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that adding Medicare fee schedules to hospitals’ electronic health record systems did not significantly impact the number of laboratory tests ordered by physicians.

A new predictive model that relies primarily on patient demographics was able to improve predictive accuracy of identifying high-cost patients in the future at Intermountain Healthcare. The results of the study and the specifics of the model were published in >eGEMs.

The compromise to align interests of the conservative Freedom Caucus and the moderate Tuesday Group would give governors and state legislatures the final say on whether to remove essential health benefits or create a high-risk pool for those with expensive chronic conditions.