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The latest developments across the healthcare landscape and key upcoming conferences to attend.

Diet and exercise improve exercise ability for patients with common type of heart failure.

Researchers examine the policy of taxing unhealthy foods and drinks in order to reduce rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other conditions linked to poor eating habits.

A recent safety trial has found a promising new therapy for type 1 diabetes that uses patients’ own regulatory T-cells instead of the usual immunosuppressive drugs to protect beta cells.

Top managed care stories include Sanofi ending its deal to market Afrezza, Aetna cut ties with America's Health Insurance Plans, and a new study found bankruptcy looms large for cancer survivors.

A new survey by a healthcare technology solutions company has identified that manual follow-up procedures on late payments from insurance companies costs the organization 33% more per claim than previous estimates.

It's time to finally put an end to “what the market will bear” as a method of pricing prescription drugs.

The action comes after The Boston Globe's in-depth investigation of the practice in October. One of the patients suing Massachusetts General Hospital over double booking is former Boston Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks.

Before the House of Representatives had even passed the bill that guts the Affordable Care Act, President Obama had already announced he would veto it. And now he has made good on that promise.

Solid-organ transplants increase the risk of death due to cancer compared with the general population, a study published in JAMA Oncology has found.

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.

What we're reading, January 8, 2016: HHS releases report with full Obamacare enrollment information for all 50 states and the District of Columbia; the expansion of the biosimilars in 2016; and promising Ebola treatment found not effective.

A study by researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center is evaluating an imaging method that can help protect normal, healthy lung tissue during radiotherapy treatment in lung cancer patients.

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.

A 23% drop in cancer deaths in the United States between 1991 and 2012-which translates into 1.7 million lives saved-was the result of successful cancer prevention, screening, and treatments, says a new report published by the American Cancer Society.

What we're reading, January 7, 2016: the uninsured rate at the end of 2015 was essentially unchanged from the beginning of the year; CMS may start paying for some rehab for drug or alcohol addiction; and follow-up care plans after hospital discharge are often too difficult for patients to understand.

ACA marketplace consumer protections for 2016 will strengthen health plan network transparency and make it faster to get nonformulary drugs.

More than 5 years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, Republicans are sending a bill to unravel the healthcare law to the president's desk. President Obama has already vowed to veto the bill.

A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine underscores the need for early cardiovascular screening in adult survivors of cancer.

A new 5-year program has been created to focus on the health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

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.

A new study conducted by researchers at Kaiser Permanente has found that a considerable number of working-age adults who survive cancer and its toxic treatments, end up with substantial medical debts or declare bankruptcy.

Drugs targeting genetic mutations that drive tumor growth have revolutionized treatment for some serious forms of cancer, but the tumors usually become resistant to the drugs’ therapeutic effects and resume growth.

Disappointing sales were blamed on prior authorization, the FDA label restrictions, and the need for spirometry before doctors could write prescriptions.

Stories about ensuring proper medication for veterans, possible changes to the Arkansas "private option, and fixing the nation's mental health system.

The country’s top insurance lobbying group is losing another big member as Aetna has decided not to renew its membership with America's Health Insurance Plans.

While the prevalence of problems paying medical bills may be greater in certain groups compared with others, almost anyone can experience difficulty paying medical bills, according to the results of a survey from Kaiser Family Foundation/New York Times.

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

Public health officials are worried about the increased popularity of e-cigarettes because they could be a gateway to the use of combustible tobacco products.