Jackie Syrop

Despite recommendations and the passage of legislation, there is little evidence that the quality of behavioral health has improved significantly over the last 10 years in the United States.

Although physiologic vital signs tell healthcare providers a great deal about their patients’ health status, providers need, but don’t have ready access to, information about their patients’ neighborhoods.

Despite known mental health disparities on the basis of sexual orientation and nonbinary gender identification, researchers are not reporting sexual orientation and transgender identities of study subjects in psychotherapy outcome studies for anxiety and depression.

Study’s findings add to concerns about health plans’ incentives not to comply with their legal obligation under the law to provide mental health benefits on par with medical and surgical benefits.

The Affordable Care Act and additional legislation that has mandated extending mental health parity coverage are contributing to an increased demand for mental health services that the United States is not meeting.

Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that increases in unemployment in California during the Great Recession were associated with an increased risk for weight gain among 1.7 million public school children in the state.

Delivering the results of complex genetic tests to at-risk patients over the telephone may be an effective way to reduce burdens and costs for patients with cancer or at risk for cancer and would not cause patients added stress, a study found.

Black women with BRCA gene mutations are far less likely to receive preventive surgery than white or Hispanic women with the BRCA gene mutation.

Fears that insurers would sell cheaper, “bare bones” plans to attract healthy enrollees away from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s marketplaces and shift sicker, more costly enrollees into the ACA plans have been unfounded.

Two studies presented at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure held in Florence, Italy, hold good news for patients with heart failure who get flu shots.

Treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy remains in flux with the FDA delaying a decision on Sarepta's treatment and Biomarin discontinuing development on its own drug.

Only half of US veterans who died from cancer received palliative care, while the use of hospice depended upon the care environment. Overall, there was a gap between the percentage of patients who received palliative care and recommended use.

Even in a state with relatively few Medicaid restrictions on hepatitis C virus medications, a low number of patients requested treatment.

A secondary analysis of data from the TECOS trial of sitagliptin finds that the drug does not affect the risk for heart failure hospitalization or related adverse clinical outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes

An analysis by Avalere Health of Hillary Clinton’s proposal to allow Americans age 50 and over to Medicare estimates that 13 million adults who are uninsured or have individual coverage through the private market could be eligible for such a program.

People who live in the country’s 2 biggest states that have not expanded Medicaid have more complaints about healthcare costs and quality and would like their states to expand the program.

Cigna and Anthem, which are potentially merging in the future, both announced they were taking steps to curb inappropriate opioid and prescription drug use.

Survival rates of patients with liver disease were better among those with 2 or more visits to a gastroenterologist, but access issues impede patients from receiving care.

Hospitalizations related to opioid abuse and dependence both with and without associated serious infections significantly increased from 2002 to 2012. Inpatient charges quadrupled during this time.

A substantial amount of US cancer diagnoses and deaths are preventable through lifestyle modification, according to a new study in JAMA Oncology, and the authors recommend that primary prevention remain a priority for cancer control.

Children with autism spectrum disorder who were born prior to the 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that all children be screened for autism at the 18- and 24-month well-child visits were diagnosed significantly later than they are today, a new study found.

Amid rising Rates of severe maternal morbidity, 2 new studies consider how to optimize maternal care.

How would the proposed Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act affect enrollment, premiums, federal spending, and out-of-pocket costs now that an estimated 20 million Americans have become newly insured?

California’s approach to the healthcare marketplace, Covered California, has successfully held down premium costs because it has authority to select health insurers.

For patients with private drug insurance plans, out-of-pocket expenses, not the timing of patient reimbursements, have a greater affect on medication adherence.

Only a small percentage of eligible employees used an online price transparency tool designed to help them understand healthcare spending. Furthermore, use of the tool was not associated with a decrease in spending.

California ex-military who need mental health care either do not receive treatment or receive inadequate care, study finds.

Medical error is the third-leading cause of death and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers are calling for better reporting on death certificates to help understand the scale of the problem and how to tackle it.

Children in households with less than 3 months of savings to cover basic expenses in the event of financial shocks had substantially higher risk of obesity and chronic illness and worse overall health.

The number of new HIV infections and the HIV transmission rate both decreased from 2010 to 2015, but still fell well short of the goals set by the Obama administration in 2010.