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Threats to Hospitals Emerging Already From CVS-Aetna Combination
CVS has vowed to change the way U.S. healthcare is delivered, including efforts to give patients less need to use...
Clinical Care
Providers Walk 'Fine Line' Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients
The proposed 'public charge' rule would allow the federal government to consider immigrants' use of an expanded list of public...
Nursing
A Patient Care Advocate Primer for Nurses
Here's how healthcare providers can work with private patient care advocates to improve patient care and outcomes.
Clinical Care
Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias
Unconscious bias can be subtle, but, as this new report shows, it may be one of the factors behind race-linked...
Clinical Care
Medicaid Plans Cover Doctors' Visits, Hospital Care — And Now Your GED
'I think this sets the standard for the unique role of Medicaid managed care in bridging health care and social...
Clinical Care
When Medicine Makes Patients Sicker
The FDA is supposed to inspect all factories, foreign and domestic, that produce drugs for the U.S. market. But a...
Clinical Care
Hep C And Drug Abuse Often Go Hand In Hand, But Screening For Infection Lags
Not testing these patients for hepatitis C is an enormous missed opportunity, public health experts agree.
Clinical Care
The VA's Private Care Program Gave Companies Billions and Vets Longer Waits
Trump wants to supersize a program that spent almost a quarter of its funds on overhead.
Clinical Care
'Landmark' Maternal Health Legislation Clears Major Hurdle
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill to fund state committees to review and investigate deaths of expectant...
Clinical Care
Prominent Doctors Aren't Disclosing Their Industry Ties in Medical Journal Studies. And Journals Are Doing Little to Enforce Their Rules
The dean of Yale's medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group and the head of a Texas...
Nursing
More Than Half Of California Nursing Homes Balk At Stricter Staffing Rules
California is one of only a few states that set their own minimum requirements for nursing home staffing. The new...
Clinical Care
The Most Wonderful Mistake the FDA Ever Made
The 2008 decision to mandate large-scale clinical cardiovascular trials transformed the treatment of diabetes for millions of people in an...