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According to pool reports, Trump proposed a series of carrots and sticks to woo drug manufacturing back to the United States and force other countries to pay more for therapies developed here. Trump called the US subsidization of drug development "global freeloading."

Officials from HHS and the Government Accountability Office testified before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee about waste, fraud, and abuse under the Affordable Care Act.

Busy lifestyles are eroding the lines of traditional meal times, and all-day eating is bad for cardiovascular health, the statement says.

A multicollaborative study has identified gaps in existing quality measures used by accountable care programs that could result in missed opportunities to improve patient outcomes.

Democrats had asked for a delay in the vote due to concerns about Price's ethics. In boycotting the Senate Finance meeting, however, they alienated Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has supported keeping the filibuster to protect minority party rights. Democrats accused Price and Treasury nominee Steve Mnuchin of lying to committee members at earlier appearances.

The study found a strong link between measures of "weight bias internalization" and metabolic syndrome in a group of obese, mostly female patients.

The American College of Cardiology is set to hold its annual meeting in the nation's capital March 17-20, 2017.

The complaint comes on the heels of requests from Congress and the American Diabetes Association for federal agencies to look into why insulin prices are so high.

Examining the Flint and Zika crises in tandem sheds light on environmental racism and classism - the ways that public health crises disproportionately impact politically and financially powerless communities.

Lawmakers and health experts pointed out that canceling the ad campaign would cause the exchanges to miss a late surge of enrollment from young, healthy adults and damage the risk pools.

A roundup of top healthcare news stories: January 30, 2017.

A retrospective analysis of evidence from prescription data gathered in Belgium and Italy has found that uncontrolled diabetes might be an early sign of pancreatic cancer.

A review of 2013 cancer statistics in the United States by the CDC showed that 67% of people survived at least 5 years after their cancer diagnosis.

The collaboration between Purdue Pharma and the Virginia Department of Health comes about 2 months after Governor Terry McAuliffe declared the state’s opioid addiction crisis a public health emergency.

A recent survey of consumers found that 1 in 5 were willing to switch from their current primary care physician to one that offered telehealth visits. Researchers noted a particular interest among the survey respondents in using telehealth to manage a chronic illness or get a prescription refilled.

CMS has tried to improve patient experience by tying payments to performance as part of the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program; however, a paper published in Health Affairs found no evidence that the program has had a beneficial effect.

The VBP program contains a variety of measures used to determine payment increases or penalties as shown below.

Interviews with 13 insurers showed that uncertainty over the future of the individual insurance market would do the most harm, even if the Affordable Care Act repeal is delayed.

This week, the top managed care stories included Aetna and Humana's merger getting blocked, the first Affordable Care Act replacement proposal was unveiled, and an analysis of regional cancer death trends.

Patients who have had at least 1 prior therapy or carry a 17p deletion or TP53 mutation are now eligible to be treated with ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in the United Kingdom.

More Americans trust the healthcare industry with their data than trust the government. But with a sharp rise in healthcare data breaches in 2016, there are steps that providers and the public should take to be safe.

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The researchers used 2 well-known national data sets to track a cohort of patients and found that death rates from diabetes are closer to 12%, not the 3% to 4% recorded on death certificates.

A roundup of top healthcare news stories: January 27, 2017.

Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, provides his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, which includes expanding the use of health savings accounts and allowing health insurance to be sold and purchased across state lines.

“Off-the-shelf” chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, also known as universal donor cells, were used in 2 young infants with relapsed, refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia resulted in molecular remission in 28 days in both infants.

A pair of commentaries published in the New England Journal of Medicine explored the popularity of the Affordable Care Act among both US physicians and residents of red states that have expanded Medicaid. Legislators preparing to repeal the law will need to contend with the widespread support for some of its components, even in unexpected regions of the nation.

Davita, the largest dialysis provider in the country, said the matter is not resolved and urged the Trump administration to take action.

A roundup of top healthcare news stories: January 26, 2017.

Researchers from the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Southwestern may have found the ultimate drivers of glioblastoma cell proliferation.