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Two Ohio counties reached a $260 million settlement case with 4 opioid distributors; doctors stress the need for flu shots among pregnant women and those with chronic illnesses; a health system reports a data breach in its e-commerce website.

Although 93% of employers say curbing the cost of healthcare and increasing its affordability is a top priority over the next 3 years, 63% of employers see healthcare affordability as the most difficult challenge, according to the 24th annual Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey by Willis Towers Watson.

Data from EXPLORE, a prospective, multinational, natural history study, is used to characterize disease activity and clinical management of patients with acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) who experience recurrent attacks. The findings highlight the high unmet need for effective treatments.

A smart mobile health tool that supports patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be an effective alternative to a paper action plan for self-management of exacerbations.

Black patients with diabetes may have a significantly higher risk of readmission to hospitals than other ethnic and racial minorities due to the high burden and complications of the disease, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

A recent study investigated whether gait parameters were implicated in motor symptoms or the risk of falling, fining that backward gait (BG) dynamics were more impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease.

A recent case series examined clinical and radiographic characteristics of patients with concomitant psoriasis and interstitial lung disease (ILD).

“Excellence” doesn’t come solely from targeted efforts at extracting wasteful spending. True “excellence” comes from health systems making fundamental changes to the way they do business, namely by adopting a market-based model in which costs are connected to quality and providers are therefore held accountable for the outcomes they produce.

A recent study presented at the American Neurological Association meeting identified vascular and nonvascular risk factors associated with migraine in a population-based study in an effort to help identify targets for reducing migraine-related disability.

A meta-analysis suggests that patients with bipolar disorder have a much greater risk of developing Parkinson disease (PD).

The change to the public charge rule has had a negative impact on immigrant patients, who are disenrolling or declining to enroll in Medicaid and are delaying or avoiding care, according to a survey of community health centers.

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the Education and Labor Committee, passed the Lower Drug Costs Now Act; Juul Labs will suspend online sales of several types of flavored e-cigarette pods; a trio of employer groups has formed a new partnership to advocate for policies that address the problem of ever-increasing drug costs.

The trial, led by a team from the University of Edinburgh, used the troponin blood test to detect heart attacks, but with separate thresholds for men and women.

This week, the top managed care news included a new guide that balances curbs on opioid abuse with the needs of patients with chronic pain; HHS proposed reforming antikickback rules to help boost value-based care; a report found flaws with Medicaid work requirements.

The global blood shortage is unevenly distributed: Out of 195 countries examined in the study, 119 had unmet need totaling more than 102 million units, the equivalent of 1849 per 100,000 population worldwide.

While measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) at the end of induction is an important prognostic factor in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), there is a gap in education among community oncology providers, according to an abstract presented at the Society of Hematologic Oncology 2019 Annual Meeting.

Several species of bacteria that can transmit respiratory infections have varying levels of response to the disinfecting agents used in municipal water treatment systems, with no one water disinfection strategy achieving complete microbial control, according to new findings.

Higher employer-sponsored healthcare premiums were found to occur in companies where women account for 75% or more, as opposed to 25%, of the workforce, according to a statistical brief.

Extended estrogen exposure and longer-term hormone therapy was shown to benefit cognitive function among postmenopausal women, according to a new study.

The study found that, on average, it took nearly 2 months or longer for patients of color to receive immunomodulatory drugs such as lenalidomide and/or proteasome inhibitors such as bortezomib and carfilzomib. The use of these therapies has more than doubled survival of patients with multiple myeloma within the past decade.

Sutter Health has agreed to a major class action lawsuit in an antitrust case; California to help middle class income citizens buy health coverage; doctors stress flu shots in the United States amid rough flu season in Australia

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a higher risk in general of infections, but the risk varies depending on their treatment, according to a new study in JAMA Neurology.

As a result of the study, investigators suggested expanding the indication for tesamorelin (Egrifta) to include people living with HIV who have been diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a comorbidity in HIV.

African Americans who report high levels of chronic stress were shown to be at a heightened risk of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension, with specific stressors such as discrimination and socioeconomic status serving as possible catalysts, according to study findings.

Using and adhering to positive airway pressure therapy was associated with fewer inpatient and overall acute care visits and a lower likelihood of having costs from those visits among patients with moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea.

Omada Health, a longtime leader in digital health coaching for diabetes prevention and type 2 diabetes (T2D) care, and Abbott, maker of the FreeStyle Libre, said the partnership will “create a new paradigm” in T2D management.

Patients with severe psoriasis have an increased risk of dying from liver, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers, and people with psoriasis have an overall increased risk of a variety of other cancers, according to a meta-analysis and review published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology.