Blue Ribbon Panel Announced to Help Guide Vice President Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
(Source – National Institutes of Health) Today, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced
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Health Care – General
UnitedHealth Tries Boutique-Style Health Plan
(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) AUSTELL, Ga. — UnitedHealthcare is betting $65 million that it can profit by
Read MoreFourteen percent of U.S. has Kidney Disease, Costing Billions
A new report from University of Virginia’s Department of Public Health Sciences found chronic kidney disease affects nearly 14 percent
Read MoreMedicare to Save $343 Million on Joint Replacements over the Next 5 years.
Beginning April 1, 2016, Medicare is changing the way hospitals will be paid for hip and knee replacement in 67
Read MoreWorkers’ Desire Grows For Wage Increases Over Health Benefits
(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) More wages, less health insurance. In a recent survey, one in five people
Read MorePresident’s Task Force Aims To Help End Discrimination In Mental Health Coverage
(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News) Tucked in remarks the president made Tuesday on the opioid epidemic was his
Read MoreFalse Hope in Treating Lyme Disease Symptoms?
On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a clinical trial stating the long-term antibiotic treatment of
Read MoreThe Other Cost of Alzheimer’s
The Alzheimer’s Association surveyed 3,500 Americans who are caring for someone with dementia and found the personal financial burden associated
Read MoreA Nurse’s Lesson: Babies In Opioid Withdrawal Still Need Mom
(by Jeff Cohen, WNPR for Kaiser Health News) HARTFORD, Conn. — Carolyn Rossi has been a nurse for 27 years, and she’s
Read MoreMortgages For Expensive Health Care? Some Experts Think It Can Work.
(by Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to
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