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Drug 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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will start reviewing Medicare Advantage plans on a three-year cycles rather than only when

(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Nagoya University Hospital in Japan plans to use robots beginning in February to ease

Sixteen states currently have all-payer claims databases (APCDs) which allows payers, providers, and regulators to analyze claims from millions of

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) A federal judge has dismissed an injunction requested by hospital groups and health

(By Terry Gross for NPR) British neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli first set out to study Alzheimer’s because of his grandfather, who

(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News) Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic

(By Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News) “It would feel like murder to pull her life support,” a young woman

(By Leo Vartorella for Becker’s Hospital Review) Congress failed to repeal and replace the ACA in 2017, and though it

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) The best-known downside of cancer screening, such as PSA tests for prostate cancer and mammograms