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The federal government intends to modernize the US health information technology (IT) infrastructure so patients, providers, and communities can achieve health and wellness goals.

Lonsurf (TAS-102) is an oral 2-drug combination pill that is intended for metastatic colorectal cancer patients who have failed on chemotherapy and biological therapy.

The research could hold the key to a novel treatment for type 2 diabetes, although it will take years to adapt the idea to clinical practice.

Despite the reported slowdown in healthcare spending, consumers are unlikely to have noticed such a change because of the sharp increase in deductibles.

Today's report is a successor to the groundbreaking report, "To Err is Human," which launched the movement to make healthcare quality part of the nation's policy agenda. Until now, however, not enough attention has been paid to an essential element: getting the diagnosis correct and getting it quickly.

AstraZeneca hopes to harness the open source platform of the DREAM challenge, releasing preclinical data to discover synergistic cancer drug combinations.

Among other challenges faced by cancer care centers, reimbursement for providing patient-centered care services remains at the top, a survey by The Association of Community Cancer Centers found.

The collaboration will make available 3 fully-humanized monoclonal antibodies to fight the devastating virus.

The legislators say Iowa is moving too quickly to transition 560,000 beneficiaries without some disruptions in care. Deaths of mental health patients after hospital closings earlier this year fuel their concerns.

Researcher found that not only was passive smoking associated with increased risk of type 2 diabete, but there was a direct dose-response relationship.

A report in The New York Times identifies challenges that could be raised based on Califf's past associations with the drug industry.

As enrollment in Medicare Advantage is expected to increase to a new all-time high for the sixth year in a row, CMS announced that Medicare Advantage premiums will remain stable in 2016.

Meaningful use stage 3 is not scheduled to start until 2017, but 41 medical societies are calling to delay the start of stage 3, especially given recent changes to Medicare.

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the number of uninsured Americans and created significant gains in health coverage among racial and ethnic minorities. However, the ability of Obamacare to reduce racial and ethnic disparities has been limited.

An analysis of the competitive landscape of the public health insurance exchanges as it has so far unfolded has revealed that despite challenges to date, the exchanges have been attracting new entrants.

Researchers are proposing a new model to integrate clinical and community services for the purpose of preventing and controlling obesity, as well as related chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes.

The top stories in managed care include the nomination for the next FDA commissioner, a report reveals cancer drugs are driving growth in the 340B program more than initially thought, and nearly half a billion in ACA funds are made available to health centers.

A collaborative team of researchers have been able to identify a gene signature that can predict how HER2-negative breast cancer patients would respond to treatment with bevacizumab.

Patients whose blood sugar and insulin delivery was managed by software had been control than those who had to self-monitor their insulin delivery.

The number of nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States has doubled in the last decade, from 106,000 in 2004 to 205,000 in 2014, according to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Similarly, the number of physician assistants (PAs) grew 219% from 2003 to 2013, according to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

The path to President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative has been paved as is evident from a report released by a Working Group convened by the National Institutes of Health.

Work at the Karolinska Institutet has revealed a potential new therapeutic target in type 2 diabetes.

Multispecialty medical groups and integrated delivery systems expect fee-for-service payments to decline 24% in the next 2 years, according to results of a survey from the American Medical Group Association.

The long-term claimed to be the first to use real world data to capture the complete picture of the value of paying for bariatric surgery in patients with diabetes.

Presentation of results at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes follows the announcement of topline results in August. For years, researchers and pharmaceutical leaders alike wondered if a diabetes therapy would be shown to have a cardioprotective effect.

Scientists in Spain have identified gene mutations that trigger bone metastasis in breast cancer patients.

While employers will continue to shift healthcare costs to employees, a new report found that the underlying cost growth, which employers would expect if they did not make changes such as raising deductibles or switching carriers, will slow in 2016.

At the recently held NCCN healthcare policy summit in Washington, DC, experts delved into various models being evaluated to reduce healthcare utilization in oncology care.

Healthcare policy makers, payers, medical centers, and patient representatives shared the dais as they discussed The Value Proposition in oncology.

The report included some famous examples of states that had to abandon early IT efforts despite large sums spent