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Including pharmacists in a team-based care model to treat patients with chronic pain can help primary care physicians create a plan to safely prescribe opioids to this population.

Using an “ingestible mini pill box,” researchers have developed a slow-release pill to deliver HIV treatment. Once inside the stomach, the capsule unfolds into a 6-armed structure, accommodating multiple drugs at a time.

New research on breast cancer biopsies and counseling after treatment will allow surgeons to have more meaningful conversations with their patients, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

For patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), getting and staying organized and maintaining focus on the right things at the right time is a challenge. Some solutions are touted at the start of every year in the form of “getting organized” with the latest planners, smartphones as well as smart home devices like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home.

Higher resting heart rate (HR) and increases in HR over time are associated with increased risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV) and non-CV events, such as incident heart failure and all-cause mortality, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Democrats push for a Medicaid buy-in option in New Mexico; half of the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't receiving the mental health care they need; Utah moves forward with 2 bills related to medical marijuana.

E-cigarette smokers have a high risk of developing lung and bladder cancer, as well as certain heart diseases due to carcinogenic e-cigarette smoke (ECS), according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Last year brought one weather disaster after another. With 2017 in the past, it is best to take a bit of time and figure out how your medical practice is prepared should 2018 be the year a disaster hits your practice.

One in every 4 drugs approved by the FDA over the past 4 years was a personalized medicine, and the agency approved a record-breaking 16 personalized therapies in the past year, according to a new report from the multi-stakeholder group the Personalized Medicine Coalition.

While the wholesale acquisition cost of the hemophilia A drug is approximately $482,000 for the first year of treatment and $448,000 for subsequent years, a draft report found that the drug would reduce the budget by approximately $1.85 billion per patient annually for patients aged 12 and older. In patents aged 12 and younger, emicizumab at wholesale acquisition cost pricing would reduce the budget by approximately $720,000 per patient annually.

CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald, MD, resigned Wednesday, one day after reports that she traded tobacco stocks while heading the agency.

President Donald Trump returned to a popular campaign theme in Tuesday’s State of the Union address when he vowed to bring down the high cost of prescription drugs.

The Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes Research Team at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center recently developed an interactive online tool to help patients with breast cancer understand their treatment options more fully.

With adoption of electronic health records around 90%, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology is now focusing on increasing usability and interoperability.

Four telehealth bills could be signed into law over the next year by Congress; President Donald Trump mentioned "right-to-try" legislation in a favorable light in his State of the Union speech; the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold legislation hearings on the opioid crisis February 26.

The benefits and challenges of joining CMS' Virtual Group option for healthcare providers to report their Quality Payment Program (QPP) measures from 2018.

The mobile health services company CareSpeak provides an interactive health messaging platform through 2-way texting designed to engage patients and/or their caregivers, family, and friends throughout the patient journey.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been named the Advance of the Year in ASCO’s Clinical Cancer Advances 2018. According to the annual report, CAR T-cell therapy is “poised to transform the outlook for children and adults with certain otherwise incurable cancers."

Will healthcare become the ultimate employee discount for US workers of Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway? Or something bigger for all Americans? The 3 disparate companies announced they will form a separate, independent company “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to tackle the vexing problem of rising healthcare costs for employees and their families.

As a result of the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule that took effect on January 1, 85% of 340B hospitals will see net payment increases in 2018. Rural hospitals will reap the largest benefits, according to an analysis conducted by Avalere and commissioned by Community Oncology Alliance.

Although it’s difficult to generalize the impact of social determinants of health, addressing them is fundamental to improving overall healthcare quality for member populations.

A team of 20 scientists in the fields of informatics, statistics, epidemiology, systematic reviews, cancer biology, and nutrition have developed a tool that will assess the links in published human studies between lifestyle factors and cancer.

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase & Co are partnering to deliver healthcare in a new way to their employees; a fitness app accidentally revealed the locations of military bases and personnel through a global heat map; a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy fell short of the 60 votes needed in the Senate.

Empagliflozin (Jardiance) and another SGLT2 inhibitor, canagliflozin (Invokana) have been competing aggressively; both have clinical trial results showing cardiovascular benefits.

Shifting care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from the hospital to the home reduced hospital readmissions by 64% and emergency department visits by 52%, a Canadian program found.

Officials at Omada Health said the PREDICTS trial was planned long before CMS decided not to include virtual providers in this spring's launch of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program. But a spokesperson said the company hopes the growing body of evidence in support of virtual programs will "assuage any concerns."

For many people on traditional Medicare plans, healthcare costs are a rising burden and are expected to consume a larger share of total income by 2030, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.