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While current guidelines recommend that only women with breast cancer who have a family history or who meet clinical criteria undergo genetic testing, a new cost-effectiveness analysis suggests that genetic testing should be expanded to all women with breast cancer.

Researchers have proposed a new tool and framework involving a personalized approach for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the use of inhaled corticosteroids.

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Walmart will launch a pilot value-based care program in January 2020; Humana is positioning itself from “an insurance company with elements of healthcare to a healthcare company with elements of insurance"; efforts are paying off to get an answer from CMS about delays in bonus payments due to doctors who take part in alternative payment models (APMs).

This week, the top managed care news included Medicare cuts hospital payments over readmissions; a second-generation chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy shows promise; a diabetes drug is approved to prevent kidney failure for the first time.

A recent study said vacuolization can easily be determined and may be a useful biomarker to predict acute myeloid leukemia risk groups as well as early treatment response rates and survival.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will protect Medicare and bolster Medicare Advantage (MA) in response to Democrats' Medicare for All proposals.

Patients with severe persistent asthma or severe COPD, with additional inclinations toward anxiety or panic disorders, exhibited an increased interest in using digital inhalers, based off 2 Health Union condition-specific surveys.

Minority representation in clinical studies often becomes overlooked, which can inhibit attributable research and heightened risk awareness within these subpopulations.

The findings indicate that the initiation of tuberculosis preventive therapy isoniazid during pregnancy carries greater risk than initiation of the treatment during the postpartum period.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the state is on track to meet its goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020; lung damage exhibited by some patients as a result of vaping resembles the damage on lungs exposed to chemical spills or harmful gases; a federal judge has ruled that a Philadelphia nonprofit’s plan to open a supervised injection drug site for drug users does not break federal law.

In this article, we'll explain how healthcare organizations can drive patient engagement and satisfaction while improving outcomes by supporting the whole person in one comprehensive digital solution.

The study, which followed 51 people with HIV who received kidney transplants from deceased donors with HIV in South Africa, found that the transplants produced long-term success, with high rates of overall survival and kidney graft survival after 5 years.

Research presented at the European Respiratory Society Conference 2019 details the novel use of a single inhaler combining 3 therapies, as opposed to 2, in 2 clinical studies on patients with severe asthma.

Presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress, the findings suggest that polycystic ovary syndrome could be responsible for lower lung capacity in some women, which heightens the risk for cardiovascular disease and higher mortality rates, even in the absence of chronic respiratory conditions.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO)’s analysis of Indian Health Service (IHS) data shows that from fiscal years 2013 through 2018, the percentage of patients at federally operated IHS hospitals and health centers who reported having health insurance coverage increased an average of 14 percentage points, from 64% in 2013 to 78% in 2018.

The guiding principle of a lifestyle medicine program is based on addressing the underlying causes of illnesses on multiple levels. The bigger picture is to prevent chronic illnesses in the first place—a major failing of the medical system and medical education.

Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who require noninvasive ventilation had more severe impairments in respiratory function than those who do not, according to findings of a new study.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowed large increases in the production of opioids even as the number of opioid-related deaths in the country soared; a federal judge has temporarily blocked Georgia’s new abortion law that was set to go into effect January 1; the United Parcel Service (UPS) has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to start setting up drones to deliver health supplies.

Researchers said the previous results on high sensitivity C-reactive protein and migraine are mixed, and the relationship to insomnia limited; the aim of this study was to evaluate the cross-sectional association between hs-CRP and types of headache, and to see whether the relationship to insomnia could be reproduced.

The study was largely funded the National Institutes of Health, and results appeared in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

As practices work to provide the best care for their patients while also containing costs, it has become clear that the old ways of doing things won’t cut it.

Ozanimod, under development to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), has greater efficacy on the annualized relapse rate (ARR) than most other first-line disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), according to 2 abstracts presented at ECTRIMS 2019, the 35th Annual Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis.

Medicare cut payments to 2583 hospitals for penalties related to 30-day patient readmissions; a judge delivers a mixed ruling on Virginia abortion law; a study finds vitamin A is linked to a lower risk of squamous cell carcinoma.

Pirfenidone was shown to potentially benefit patients with uILD in a phase 2 trial, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress 2019 in Madrid, Spain.

The new indication is based on results of the CREDENCE trial, which found that canagliflozin reduced the risk of renal failure or death by 30% in those that had both type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease.

According to results of a survey asking 1300 Americans about their perceptions and knowledge of sleep disorders like narcolepsy, many respondents were not familiar with common symptoms of the disease and their understanding was often shaped by television shows or movies.