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CoreChoice and MINES partner to form PPO network to combat opioid and substance use

CoreChoice, the national specialty network for radiology, interventional pain management, and medical air transportation services is pleased to announce their partnership agreement with MINES & Associates to form the nation's first PPO network solution to combat the nationwide opioid and polysubstance use epidemic.

8 Oct 2018

Researchers find specific place in the genome linked to increased risk of erectile dysfunction

For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome that raises a person's risk of erectile dysfunction. The discovery is a significant advancement in the understanding of the genetics underlying erectile dysfunction.

8 Oct 2018

Humana and VFW NY team up on Stop 22 initiative to increase awareness of veterans committing suicide

Humana Inc. and Department of NY Veterans of Foreign Wars have teamed up on the Stop 22 initiative, which aims to increase awareness of 22 veterans committing suicide each day. As part of this partnership, the VFW NY will host the inaugural Stop 22 Walk-A-Thon to heighten awareness of the mental health needs of our country's veterans.

8 Oct 2018

The feds’ termination of a tiny contract inflames bitter fight over fetal tissue

Federal health officials announced late last month they had terminated their contract with a company that supplies human fetal tissue for medical research and were checking that similar contracts, as well as studies conducted with that tissue, comply with federal law.

8 Oct 2018

Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

Dr. Christopher Rao jumped out of his office chair. He'd just learned an elderly patient at high risk of falling was resisting his advice to go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility following a hip fracture.

8 Oct 2018

FDA and EMA accept Novartis' regulatory application for siponimod to treat SPMS in adults

Novartis today announced that both the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency have accepted the company's New Drug Application and Marketing Authorization Application respectively, for investigational oral, once-daily siponimod (BAF312) for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in adults.

8 Oct 2018

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink with the 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award.

8 Oct 2018

New update on CareMore's innovative program to transform delivery of care for Medicaid consumers

CareMore Health announced today that a new article "Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care" has been published in Harvard Business Review. The outcomes reported in the article provide the first update on CareMore's innovative program designed to transform the delivery of care for Medicaid consumers.

7 Oct 2018

Online and in-person care found to be equally effective at improving psoriasis symptoms

For approximately 8 million Americans, visiting a doctor regularly is the key to managing their psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by itchy or painful red patches that can appear anywhere on the body.

7 Oct 2018

UTMB researchers develop less expensive way to produce vaccines

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed less expensive way to produce vaccines that cuts the costs of vaccine production and storage by up to 80 percent without decreasing safety or effectiveness.

6 Oct 2018

New collaborative program receives CDC grant to reduce Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders affects approximately 1 in 20 children in the United States. These catastrophic and irreversible disorders are entirely preventable if no alcohol is used during pregnancy.

6 Oct 2018

Top American hospitals make it unduly confusing for patients to access medical records

Many top hospitals in the United States are making it unduly confusing or expensive for patients to gain access to their own medical records, say researchers at Yale. Their study appeared on Oct. 5 in JAMA Network Open.

5 Oct 2018

Patient advocacy or political ploy? Union, industry square off over dialysis initiative

This year, California dialysis clinics — and their profits — are in a powerful union's crosshairs. On Nov. 6, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West union hopes to deliver a stinging blow with a ballot measure designed to limit clinic profits.

5 Oct 2018

FDA authorizes marketing of new Bose Hearing Aid

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of a new device, the Bose Hearing Aid, intended to amplify sounds for individuals 18 years or older with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment (hearing loss).

5 Oct 2018

Yale researchers identify factors linked to disparities in cancer deaths

Yale researchers have identified factors that may contribute to widening cancer death disparities among counties across the United States.

5 Oct 2018

Studies needed on effects of cannabis use on physical health of children

McMaster University researchers say there is an urgent need for studies on the physical health effects of cannabis use, including its impact on puberty.

5 Oct 2018

Managing your mental health while managing a newsroom’s social media

Like many people in society today, we know we spend too much time online — but as social media managers it is our job to be there. Social media managers, a position that was unheard of a decade ago, experience tremendous stress.

5 Oct 2018

Researchers identify sex-specific genetic risk factor for pancreatic cancer

In a new study from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, researchers have found that mutation of a gene called ATRX may lead to increased risk of developing pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in females.

5 Oct 2018

Length of hospital stay and readmission likelihood increases by 2.9% in rural areas, review finds

Hospital readmissions cost hospitals about $26 billion annually. Systems like the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program within the Affordable Care Act penalize hospitals with higher readmission rates for targeted diagnoses.

5 Oct 2018

Review: Terminally-ill homeless adults face significant barriers in accessing palliative care

Terminally-ill homeless adults and their care providers must surmount many obstacles in the receipt and provision of palliative care, according to a University of Toronto scoping review of the available grey and peer-reviewed literature on this topic, published online this week in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying.

5 Oct 2018

Health Care News and Research

CoreChoice and MINES partner to form PPO network to combat opioid and substance use

Researchers find specific place in the genome linked to increased risk of erectile dysfunction

Humana and VFW NY team up on Stop 22 initiative to increase awareness of veterans committing suicide

The feds’ termination of a tiny contract inflames bitter fight over fetal tissue

Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

FDA and EMA accept Novartis' regulatory application for siponimod to treat SPMS in adults

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

New update on CareMore's innovative program to transform delivery of care for Medicaid consumers

Online and in-person care found to be equally effective at improving psoriasis symptoms

UTMB researchers develop less expensive way to produce vaccines

New collaborative program receives CDC grant to reduce Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Top American hospitals make it unduly confusing for patients to access medical records

Patient advocacy or political ploy? Union, industry square off over dialysis initiative

FDA authorizes marketing of new Bose Hearing Aid

Yale researchers identify factors linked to disparities in cancer deaths

Studies needed on effects of cannabis use on physical health of children

Managing your mental health while managing a newsroom’s social media

Researchers identify sex-specific genetic risk factor for pancreatic cancer

Length of hospital stay and readmission likelihood increases by 2.9% in rural areas, review finds

Review: Terminally-ill homeless adults face significant barriers in accessing palliative care

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