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The study, conducted by researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital, found that complications associated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomies were higher in low-volume hospitals, with relatively inexperienced staff.

Karen Davis, director of Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at Johns Hopkins University, says increasing resources available for home treatments and services and support for family caregivers of the elderly and those with debilitating diseases might work to reduce reliance on costly nursing homes for those afflicted.

The FDA said it had received 20 reports in the 15 months since the first of the SGLT2 inhibitor class was approved, and had continued to receive reports since that time. All drugs in the class were included in the safety communication.

The study, published in Cancer, found a 14% higher rate of obesity among childhood cancer survivors in their surveyed population, compared to the federal numbers.

ICD-10 should not only be delayed, but scrapped, said Steven Stack, MD, the incoming president of the American Medical Association, throwing his organization's support behind a bill by Texas Republican Representative Ted Poe delaying its rollout.

Despite ample health research showing that needle exchanges can reduce the spread of disease, the ban on federal funding of these programs has remained mostly intact since 1988.

As of April 2015, 21 states have chosen not to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. All but one of those states have also chosen to rely on federally facilitated marketplaces.

Even though patient-centered medical home models are being implemented by multiple provider practices and health systems, little is known about what facilitates their implementation.

This week The American Journal of Managed Care launched its new Managed Markets News Network, featuring the top stories in managed care and interviews with industry experts.

More than 1 in 4 adults who bought insurance for themselves or their families last year had to skip needed medical care because they couldn't afford it, according to a study released Thursday by Families USA, a consumer health group.

Gov. Rick Scott told agency heads to prepare for the worst Thursday, asking them to list only the state's most critical needs in the event the Legislature can't reach an agreement on a budget that doesn't expand healthcare to the poor.

The contractor tapped to rescue the flailing HealthCare.gov in the fall of 2013 declared its work finished Thursday and said it doesn't plan to continue overseeing the website that sells subsidized insurance to millions of Americans as part of the federal health law.

Conducted by Harris Poll, an interesting survey finding points to "employees" in general as the biggest insider threat to data security.

In his own words, "The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released new reference standards that could help diagnostic laboratories standardize their equipment and software to reduce variability in genetic test results between laboratories.

If adopted, the active surveillance threshold would give physicians a tool in the management of men with localized prostate cancer and could spare many aggressive therapy or radiation and its side effects.

A physician expresses his frustration with the lack of clarity in healthcare costs and explains the advantage of price transparency in easing a patient's worries as well as reducing healthcare utilization by increasing physician awareness.

In 2014, Medicare telemedicine reimbursement totaled $13.9 million, a number that has steadily increased since 2008, according to the Robert J. Waters Center for Telehealth and eHealth Law.

For e-prescribing to realize its full potential for improving the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of prescription drug delivery, important work remains to be carried out.

Raising awareness of the dangers of mouth and throat cancer increased the number of black men in some of Florida's poorest counties who sought screening for the first time, which could improve survival rates through early detection and treatment.

At the Medical Home Summit in Philadelphia, Lisa Letourneau, MD, executive director of Maine Quality Counts, told the audience that ACOs have not had as much an impact on healthcare cost because a lot of primary care payments are still made under the old fee-for-service model.

What one type 1 diabetic has learned from living and coping with diabetes for 42 years.

While the marketing of the first biosimilar to be approved in the US market, Zarxio, has been delayed due to a court order, the FDA is providing guidance to manufacturers to help them effectively navigate the process of product development.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania tested interventions on smokers who worked to quit either on their own or in teams, with different reward structures.

Yesterday, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) lifted the embargo on nearly 5000 abstracts that will be presented at ASCO's 51st Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, May 29-June 2. The results from a few of the studies were released via a presscast that saw participation by the chair of ASCO's clinical communications committee, the current ASCO president, and the ASCO president-elect.

The study, conducted by the Global eHealth Unit at the Imperial College London, has found that the majority of insulin dosing apps are unreliable and put patients at risk of getting incorrect doses of insulin. Does this demand an FDA oversight of the apps?

The prices for new hepatitis C and cancer treatments are driving the cost of prescription drugs to new highs for more Americans, according to a new report, which found that 9 of 10 patients with drug costs of $50,000 or more used specialty drugs.

If all 12.7 million US youth with obesity become obese adults, the individual cost on average is just over $92,000, and the societal costs over their lifetimes may exceed $1.1 trillion, according to findings from the Brookings Institute.

A hospital visit prompts an exchange about an "Alabama plan" to expand Medicaid in a state that is trying for find new funding sources for adult mental health services.

There is an association between the implementation of chronic care model elements and improvements with healthcare practice or health outcomes for people with chronic disease, according to a literature review of papers.