With increased access to insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, fewer uninsured patients have been hospitalized for serious heart conditions, a U.S. study suggests.
The state's only heart transplant program is now temporarily suspended after at least three cardiologists on the transplant team left or announced plans to leave. Oregon Health & Science University will not evaluate new transplant candidates, accept donor hearts or perform any transplant surgeries for 14 days.
In a rare showing of support for a Trump administration healthcare policy, 150 medical groups praised a White House effort to ease “documentation requirements” but they don't want billing codes so simple they cut doctor pay.
The announcement that New York University is abolishing tuition for its medical students elicited surprise and joy from the incoming class of 2022 (and pangs of jealousy from students like us who had chosen to go elsewhere for medical school). Some pundits see this as the first of many tuition dominoes to fall.
A consumer advocacy organization is asking federal health officials Tuesday to halt a large medical study being conducted at major universities nationwide. Public Citizen says that the study, involving treatment for sepsis, puts patients at risk and will at best produce confusing results.
As her father fought his losing battle with glioblastoma, Meghan McCain asked her Twitter followers and “The View” audience last year to support two nonprofits that fund research on this notoriously aggressive and wily brain cancer. The plea made experts wish, if only the main problem were money.