Hospital Honchos Hone New Message In Wake Of Opioid Epidemic: Expect Pain
(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio in partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News) Doctors at some of the largest
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Caring Voice Coalition lost crucial stamp of approval from the U.S. government
Caring Voice Coalition, a major drug industry funded charity, had received hundreds of millions of dollars from drug companies, but
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(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Analysts with Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Avalere hosted a webinar Jan. 4 on the top
Read MoreProject ECHO uses telemedicine to help rural remote providers
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) uses telemedicine to help rural and remote providers learn from specialist to manage
Read MoreDefending Against This Season’s Deadly Flu: 5 Things To Know Now
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(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) A new paper points to a previously unknown hurdle for scientists racing to develop therapies
Read MoreAn Opioid Remedy That Works: Treat Pain And Addiction At The Same Time
(By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio in reporting partnership with NPR, Colorado Public Radio and Kaiser Health News) Seven years
Read MoreMedicare begins paying for fractional flow reserve-computed tomography test
As of January 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began paying for the technical component of the
Read MoreDrug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally
(By Pauline Bartolone for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) Even as the opioid crisis fueled overdose deaths across
Read MorePharmacists Slow To Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug
(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News) Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic
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