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With healthcare costs growing, a bipartisan group of senators has unveiled draft legislation that would protect patients from surprise bills and prevent medical bankruptcies; at least 17 hog-waste lagoons may have released feces and urine into flood waters in North Carolina, putting people at risk of viruses, parasitic infections, and rashes; African Americans accounted for fewer than 5% of patients in 24 trials for cancer drugs approved since 2015.

A study found that testosterone replacement therapy reduced the risk of respiratory hospitalizations in men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The bill is part of President Donald Trump's blueprint to rein in prescription drug prices, and advocates see it as a small step in the right direction.

Researchers examining how well integrated practice units (IPU) are implemented across 7 cancer centers in Europe found there was no clear, consistent strategy for developing and implementing IPUs, in an analysis that focused mostly on breast cancer clinical pathways.

With general consensus that those 70 years and older should not be routinely screened for prostate cancer, researchers argue that their study results identify an area for cutting low-value services to reduce healthcare spending.

Researchers determined that the current drug pipeline is unlikely to produce any highly effective vaccines for HIV, tuberculosis, or malaria, which could be important for controlling the spread of these diseases.

While the pathogenesis of autoimmune myelofibrosis is not completely understood, in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, it may be triggered by circulating immune complexes that induce megakaryocytes to release platelet-derived growth factor.

Healthcare costs in America are seeping into nonhealthcare companies’ earnings announcements. None of those companies discussed healthcare this time last year.

The Senate passed a massive opioid bill 99-1, but public health experts and first responders are concerned it won’t do enough to stop the crisis; pharmaceutical companies with manufacturing plants in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia put emergency plans in place last week as Hurricane Florence bore down to avoid shortages of drugs and vaccines; the cannabis industry is booming, and one of the fastest growing group of users are people over age 50.

A phase 2 clinical trial of a surgical procedure called targeted lung denervation to open blocked airways in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) showed that it reduced problems associated with the disease.

CMS said that it is proposing to reduce regulations on hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in a move it estimates will save $1.12 billion annually as part of its “Patients Over Paperwork” initiative.

The FDA announced a new, 4-pronged approach to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as it unveiled a 2019 strategic plan that envisions innovative payment strategies in an effort to spur pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics.

Researchers pinpointed the characteristics of asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) causing a greater disease burden than either condition alone.

The approval comes 6 months after the 2 companies fist made an announcement of the proposed merger.

The survey of more than 340 women revealed an overwhelming belief that people with migraine are dismissed as exaggerating their symptoms and that employers don't understand the burden of migraine on their employees.

Last week, the FDA granted priority review to a new supplemental Biologics License Application for pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as a monotherapy for first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous or squamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients whose tumors express PD-L1 without EGFR or ALK mutations.

Twice-yearly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to find early breast cancers in women with a high genetic risk are more effective than 1 mammogram, study says.

The study by the National Institute on Aging produced a few surprises and was stopped early when aspirin showed no benefit.

Patient and advocacy groups filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s plan to let people buy short-term health insurance that doesn’t comply with the Affordable Care Act; members of the federal Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission advisory panel expressed concerns that 4350 low-income people in Arkansas had lost Medicaid coverage because they failed to show they were complying with new work requirements; half as many people tried heroin for the first time in 2017 as in 2016, but marijuana use grew.

Children of Hispanic ethnicity have a higher risk of developing neurotoxicity when they are treated with methotrexate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) compared with non-Hispanic white children.

There is an association between an individual’s perceptions of community safety and adverse respiratory health among populations with exposure to high air pollution, according to new research.

A National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) working group dedicated to analyzing current challenges under existing policy and treatment paradigms presented their findings and recommendations at an NCCN Policy Summit in Washington, DC.

As the term “value” has become a norm in healthcare, specifically in oncology, panelists at a National Comprehensive Cancer Network policy summit offered perspectives on where we are now in delivering high-quality cancer care under value-based payment models.

A 12-month, late-stage study of romosozumab in men aged 55 to 90 years with osteoporosis found that it increased spine and hip bone mineral density (BMD) and was well tolerated.

A recent study has discovered that B cells mediate spontaneous T cell proliferation through the HLA-DR15 haplotype, and this interaction between T cells and B cells may serve as a key factor in understanding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS).

A descriptive, observational study in Switzerland implemented an interprofessional medication adherence program (IMAP) in patients with HIV. The framework for the implementation of services in pharmacy (FISpH) model is described and formulated for other healthcare facilities and professionals to evaluate and execute for themselves.

A recent report from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) investigated the current state of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and future strategies to consider as the novel immunotherapy evolves and is used in the treatment of more patients.

Research has shown nonemergency medical transportation can be essential for patients in rural areas, as well as the poor, elderly, and chronically ill. In a Health Affairs blog post, authors from CareMore Health show how the company has found success with Lyft after a pilot program it ran in 2016.