What We're Reading: New VA Deal; Antibiotics Debate; Alabama Ends Managed Care Shift
Congress Reaches VA Spending Deal
Republicans and Democrats have agreed on an emergency spending bill to end the budget crisis in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Full Course of Antibiotics
A new opinion piece in BMJ is calling into question the widely held belief that patients must take the full course of antibiotics. The directive to finish the full course is not actually grounded in science, and may have helped create the current resistance problem,
Alabama Ends Medicaid Managed Care Proposal
A long-running plan to shift Alabama’s Medicaid program to managed care has come to an end. State officials have
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