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Patients with heart failure who see physician after leaving hospital are more likely to survive

Patients with heart failure who see a physician in the first month after leaving hospital are more likely to survive than those who do not see a doctor, reports a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The effect is slightly more pronounced in patients who see their regular physician rather than an unfamiliar physician.

20 Aug 2013

FDA reminds health care providers not to administer any NuVision Pharmacy sterile products to patients

Products may still pose serious risk to patients The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding health care providers about safety concerns with all sterile drug products made and distributed by NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas, Texas.

20 Aug 2013

Pilot project designed to help patients navigate complex cancer treatment improves health care

An experimental health information exchange being tested in the north Georgia city of Rome is helping Koren Sinnock keep her travel plans. A breast cancer patient, Sinnock had been reluctant to travel very far from her doctors until the new program promised to provide access to her medical records from anywhere she might happen to be - including the beach.

20 Aug 2013

With Medicaid expansion, some people will be newly eligible while others will move to health exchanges

News outlets examine how the Medicaid expansion and other health law changes might reshape the program in various locations across the country.

20 Aug 2013

Study shows superantigens produced by staph bacteria cause infective endocarditis and sepsis

University of Iowa researchers have discovered what causes the lethal effects of staphylococcal infective endocarditis - a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately 20,000 Americans each year.

20 Aug 2013

Obama scolds GOP for efforts to 'gum up' the health law

In his Saturday address, the president says if Republicans continue to work to undermine the overhaul, they will be doing a disservice to their constituents. But Republican Rep. Capito warns health law is not working and calls for an implementation delay.

20 Aug 2013

Health law critics raise privacy concerns about navigator program

Some state attorneys general say the plans for hiring and training navigators don't have enough consumer safeguards.

20 Aug 2013

Detailing the health law's implementation hurdles

Continued opposition to the overhaul is one of the administration's biggest challenges. In addition, many consumers eligible to buy insurance in new online marketplaces still don't understand their benefits and obligations under the law. Meanwhile, insurance companies are gearing up to sell policies.

20 Aug 2013

Study: Websites and mobile apps help fight obesity

A pending component of health care reform would require restaurants and vending machines to list calorie information on menus to help fight obesity.

20 Aug 2013

First Edition: August 19, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about how public perceptions and political opposition continue to swirl around the health law's implementation.

19 Aug 2013

Obama tells GOP 'health insurance isn't something to play politics with'

In his weekly address, the president criticizes Republicans for trying to "gum up the works" on implementation of the law. Meanwhile, in the GOP address, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says overhaul is not workable and calls for a delay in the individual mandate.

19 Aug 2013

Boehringer signs agreement with Brigham to conduct long-term study program on oral anticoagulants

Boehringer Ingelheim, a research-based, global pharmaceutical company, today announced a multi-year agreement with Brigham and Women's Hospital, an internationally recognized teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School known for its excellence in patient care, medical research and training of outstanding young health professionals.

17 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: Medicare's lessons for the health law; Krauthammer says Obama shouldn't try to write his own laws

As a Sept. 30 budget deadline approaches, many in the Republican Party are pushing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The law's most radical opponents are even threatening to shut down the government by refusing to pass a continuing resolution, which would fund existing government programs at current or slightly adjusted levels.

17 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: Latest Health law delay just a 'glitch;' feds' overhaul of health care gets many 'moving parts wrong'

Today brings news of another delay in the implementation of Obamacare -- the second significant glitch this summer. … If this sounds like a winner for Republicans in 2014 it probably isn't.

17 Aug 2013

A California audit finds oversight lacking in regard to mental health spending

News outlets report the review concluded that the state has failed to provide properly montior programs funded by the Mental Health Services Act.

17 Aug 2013

State highlights: Pushback by Penn State employees; medical cuts loom; getting nursing care at home

A selection of health policy stories from California, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

17 Aug 2013

Research roundup: The health of the U.S.; doctors aren't paid to talk; savings from high-deductible plans

Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. ... From 1990 to 2010, the United States made substantial progress in improving health. Life expectancy at birth and [healthy life expectancy] increased, all-cause death rates at all ages decreased, and age-specific rates of years lived with disability remained stable.

17 Aug 2013

Planned Parenthood affiliates among groups tapped to receive federal health law grants

News outlets also highlight various other organizations that received funding to be 'navigators.'

17 Aug 2013

Mathematical model to help answer critical questions to large-scale anthrax exposure

If terrorists targeted the United States with an anthrax attack, health care providers and policy makers would need key information - such as knowing the likelihood of an individual becoming infected, how many cases to expect and in what pattern, and how long to give antibiotics - to protect people from the deadly bacteria.

17 Aug 2013

HHS awards $67 million in 'Navigator' grants to groups to help consumers with the health law

The grants are part of the health law's outreach and assistance efforts, viewed as linchpins to the law's success.

17 Aug 2013

Health Care News and Research

Patients with heart failure who see physician after leaving hospital are more likely to survive

FDA reminds health care providers not to administer any NuVision Pharmacy sterile products to patients

Pilot project designed to help patients navigate complex cancer treatment improves health care

With Medicaid expansion, some people will be newly eligible while others will move to health exchanges

Study shows superantigens produced by staph bacteria cause infective endocarditis and sepsis

Obama scolds GOP for efforts to 'gum up' the health law

Health law critics raise privacy concerns about navigator program

Detailing the health law's implementation hurdles

Study: Websites and mobile apps help fight obesity

First Edition: August 19, 2013

Obama tells GOP 'health insurance isn't something to play politics with'

Boehringer signs agreement with Brigham to conduct long-term study program on oral anticoagulants

Viewpoints: Medicare's lessons for the health law; Krauthammer says Obama shouldn't try to write his own laws

Viewpoints: Latest Health law delay just a 'glitch;' feds' overhaul of health care gets many 'moving parts wrong'

A California audit finds oversight lacking in regard to mental health spending

State highlights: Pushback by Penn State employees; medical cuts loom; getting nursing care at home

Research roundup: The health of the U.S.; doctors aren't paid to talk; savings from high-deductible plans

Planned Parenthood affiliates among groups tapped to receive federal health law grants

Mathematical model to help answer critical questions to large-scale anthrax exposure

HHS awards $67 million in 'Navigator' grants to groups to help consumers with the health law

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