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Study to investigate unsavory practice of player flopping in basketball

Biomechanics experts at Southern Methodist University have teamed with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to carry out a scientific study of the unsavory practice of player flopping in basketball and other sports.

10 Jun 2013

FDA panel loosens Avandia safety restrictions

Despite some concern over whether the diabetes drug Avandia can increase heart problems, an FDA panel Thursday loosened restrictions on how doctors can prescribe the drug.

10 Jun 2013

State highlights: Ore. schools face insurance exchange choice

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wages are so low they force many of its employees onto the public doles, creating a drag on taxpayers and the economy, according to a new report from the staff of congressional Democrats. The report analyzes data from Wisconsin's Medicaid program, estimating that a single 300-person Wal-Mart Supercenter in that state likely costs taxpayers at least $904,542 per year and could cost up to $1,744,590 per year, or roughly $5,815 per employee (Lazo, 6/7).

10 Jun 2013

Drug regulators slow to pursue concerns about potential adverse effects of new diabetes drugs

The BMJ and Channel 4 Dispatches investigated and found that evidence suggesting potential harm from the drugs in industry studies has not been published.

10 Jun 2013

Research roundup: Health spending on kids with special needs

Between 2008 and 2010, the rate of growth for health care spending declined. The recession, many researchers believe, was a key contributor to this decline. In this study, researchers explored whether the recession also had an impact on health care spending for children, especially those with special health care needs.

10 Jun 2013

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation grant supports aging-related curricula for doctors

Geriatrics is a medical specialty, but it is important for almost all doctors, whether they practice orthopedics, emergency medicine or psychiatry, to understand how healthy aging and its interaction with disease affects older patients. With a new grant announced June 7 by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Dr. Richard Besdine and colleagues at the Brown University School of Public Health and Alpert Medical School will teach hundreds of residents and practicing physicians, such as hospitalists, about aging so they can further improve care.

10 Jun 2013

Costs and coverage: Trying to discern who will experience health law gains or feel its pinch

The Wall Street Journal reports on how the law might impact small businesses that employ young and healthy workers as well as whether the measure's new coverage might be too expensive for low-paid employees. Also in the news, a report concludes that U.S. consumers who purchase health insurance on the individual market saved $2.1 billion last year due to the overhaul's rules.

10 Jun 2013

'Medical home' experiment reduced costs, improved care even more in second year

The nation's largest experiment in delivering medical care in an innovative way has reduced costs and improved the quality of care even more in its second year than in its first, according to the insurance company behind it.

10 Jun 2013

Obama touts early success for health law in California

President Obama on Friday highlighted a concentrated, localized strategy to encourage young Americans to enroll in the new health care exchanges. "Competition and choice are pushing down costs in the individual market, just like the law is designed to do," Obama said during remarks in San Jose, Calif. California is one of three states key to the 2010 health care law's expansion of health insurance to all Americans -- but especially young people (Kennedy, 6/7).

10 Jun 2013

Video promotes awareness about safe injection practices

A video depicting an animated man's harrowing experience with the healthcare system, including an avoidable unsafe injection, is the grand prize winner of the third annual Film Festival at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

7 Jun 2013

Proventix Systems honors physicians for excellence and leadership in hand hygiene

Proventix Systems, Inc. of Birmingham, Ala. today awarded the Lathem Physician Leadership Award in Hand Hygiene to five physicians who demonstrate a commitment to hand hygiene excellence and leadership in their facilities.

7 Jun 2013

WEX Health: A customized virtual payments solution for healthcare market

WEX Inc., a leading provider of corporate payment solutions, today announced the introduction of WEX Health, a customized virtual payments solution, for the healthcare market.

7 Jun 2013

Viewpoints: 'Reasonable' debate about health law's 'rate shock; 'absurdity' of Sebelius' account of fund raising; Obama killed the grand bargain

Many of us have been wondering whether it's possible to have an honest, reasonable debate about Obamacare. To my pleasant surprise, one may finally be starting.

7 Jun 2013

State highlights: N.Y. hospital struggles to reopen post-Sandy; Aetna eyes acos in Ga., Fla.; doc-assisted suicide denied in Maine

Officials at the last hospital still closed because of damage from Superstorm Sandy are no longer predicting when they will be able to reopen.

7 Jun 2013

State decisions on Medicaid expansion deepen health care divide

The Fiscal Times examines how political dynamics are leading to a red state-blue state divide in the availability of health care coverage.

7 Jun 2013

First Edition: June 7, 2013

Today's headlines include previews of the speech President Barack Obama is expected to deliver today in California as well as news about particular health law implementation issues.

7 Jun 2013

Poll finds health law's support sliding

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC survey concludes that more Americans than ever before view the health law as a bad idea. Just as these numbers are rolling out, the White House is launching its own messaging effort -- reaching out to Democrats and Republicans, high-ranking officials and lawmakers -- to get people to sign up for coverage through the overhaul's new online health insurance exchanges.

7 Jun 2013

No easy answers about health law's impact on full-time jobs

CQ Health Beat parses conflicting data on whether the health law may be spurring employers to keep workers part-time. Meanwhile, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, questions whether the projections of rising health insurance subsidy costs may be due to employers dumping coverage. News outlets also offer reports on health exchanges from Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado and California.

7 Jun 2013

ODH hosts symposium on ‘Health Information Exchanges’ for research and public health improvement

Today, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Weatherhead Institute for Family Medicine and Community Health are hosting the second annual Ohio Health Data Symposium, a meeting for research and public health experts. The collaboration's theme is "Health Information Exchanges: Opportunities for Research and Public Health Improvement."

7 Jun 2013

New fellows and scholars of gerontological nursing receive awards from NHCGNE

The National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE) today announced $1,332,000 in awards to the latest cohort of Claire M. Fagin Fellows and Patricia G. Archbold Scholars studying gerontological nursing in academic settings across the U.S.

7 Jun 2013