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The panel, developed in collaboration with immunooncology scientists around the world, including at INSERM, will help researchers create a profile of the human immune response in all cancer types.

The call for all women age 30 and older to have genetic testing for the mutations that cause breast and ovarian cancer raises a host of ethical and practical concerns, to say nothing of the cost, which could run in the billions of dollars in the United States, according to a physician for a major insurer who has implemented a genetic counseling policy.

Although baby boomers are expected to place a large burden on healthcare resources, consumer health technologies could help stem increasing needs and costs, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The FDA approval will greatly influence the reach of the drug which was approved for use in advanced prostate cancer patients.

An analysis of hospital administrative costs across 8 countries found hospital bureaucracy accounts for a quarter of hospital spending in the United States.

The retrospective study, conducted at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, found that watchful waiting among black men with early stage prostate cancer who had undergone surgery, resulted in a more aggressive disease.

US school children and especially teens are eating too much salt, and they're doing so with the staples of the American diet — things like pizza, bread, snacks, chicken nuggets, and cheeseburgers. Children ages 6-18 consumed 42 percent more sodium on average than needed, with teens consuming nearly 60 percent more than recommended levels, according to a 2009-2010 survey released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Health Care Cost Institute and the National Academy for State Healthy Policy are launching a grant program to fund studies that will analyze how the states are implementing health reform.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a final rule for electronic health record certification that offers more flexibility for health information technology developers, providers, and consumers.

A joint statement by ASCO and CCO published new guidelines in the treatment of metastatic CRPC.

NICE does not deem Abraxane more effective than FOLFIRINOX, in addition to the fact that it causes severe side effects.

Extending young adults' eligibility for health insurance on their parents' plans under an Affordable Care Act provision led to a decrease in emergency department visits.

The statement points to the increased complexity of some of the LDTs and highlights patient safety issues that are at stake.

In the largest cities in 15 states plus the District of Columbia the average insurance premiums for the second-lowest-cost silver plan will decline by 0.8% in 2015, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will award $60 million in Navigator grants to 90 organizations in states with federally facilitated and state partnership marketplaces.

After vowing earlier this year to find a way to expand Medicaid to 400,000 Virginians, Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe conceded yesterday he'd been cornered by Republicans in the Legislature determined to thwart his plans. McAuliffe yesterday unveiled a modest plan to extend Medicaid to 20,000 residents with severe mental illnesses and 5,000 children of state workers.

With the objective of reducing drug abuse, especially by teenagers, the D.E.A. will now allow patients and their relatives to mail-in their unneeded stockpiles of prescription drugs back to the pharmacies.

A meta-analysis comprising 16 studies and 891,426 participants from various regions of the world shows that prediabetes increases the risk of cancer by 15%, with differing risks depending on the type of cancer.

For patients who develop infections while staying in a hospital, the chances of it becoming drug resistant increases 1% for each day of hospitalization, according to researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

The results of the genomic data can guide treatment decisions post-surgery in prostate cancer.

Numbers for Stage 2 meaningful use attestation remain very low, according to the latest numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The narrow health insurance networks that have become more common under the Affordable Care Act can reduce patient spending by as much as a third, according to research from MIT.

"Merck is threatening to exploit that invention," known as immunotherapy, with a later-developed method of treatment, in violation of a May 20 patent, Bristol-Myers said in a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. The New York-based company is seeking unspecified damages.

Large businesses expect to pay between 4 and 5 percent more for health-care benefits for their employees in 2015 after making adjustments to their plans, according to employer surveys conducted this summer.

Writers in the recent issue of JAMA Dermatology call on the healthcare system to change the way the nation screens for melanoma, citing the $291 million annual cost of treating the disease and the $2.85 billion costs in lost productivity, which they say could be trimmed if cases were caught earlier.

Highmark, an insurer with its own health system, is challenging a growing and controversial billing practice that also happens to be a central part of some health system integration strategies.

The law could restrict the use of less-expensive generics with the availability of newer, more-expensive drugs.

In recent months, as the conversation about reforming the health care system has shifted to achieving greater delivery system efficiencies, cost containment, and patient satisfaction, the role of health care technology-specifically, telehealth and health information technology (health IT or HIT), is becoming an ever more prevalent discussion topic among health policy stakeholders.

Nearly a quarter of a million newly naturalized citizens or immigrants may lose their health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act at the end of the month.

Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) were awarded a grant estimated to be funded at $23.8 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to study a new model that aims to improve HIV prevention and care while lowering healthcare costs.