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Finance
Public Option Health Plan Could Lower Costs, Expand Coverage
The Urban Institute estimates the savings that come with a public option health plan, capping provider payment rates, and financial...
Clinical Care
Health System Targets Gun Safety to Prevent Suicide
Intermountain Healthcare has adopted a four-part strategy to establishing time and distance between people in crisis and firearms.
Drug Users Armed With Naloxone Double As Medics On Streets Of San Francisco
Fentanyl users may be using naloxone to reverse as many overdoses as paramedics ? or more.
FDA Overlooked Red Flags In Drugmaker's Testing of New Depression Medicine
Spravato maker Janssen provided the FDA modest evidence that it worked and only in limited trials. It presented no information...
With Public Meeting, FDA Signals Interest in New Opioid Limits
Agency seeks input on possible approaches to discourage high-dose prescribing.
How Measles Detectives Work To Contain An Outbreak
Public health departments are redirecting scarce resources to try to control the spread of measles. Their success relies on shoe-leather...
Fall-related Death Rates Triple for US Seniors
The absolute number of fall-related deaths for seniors ages 75 and higher increased from 8,613 in 2000 to 25,189 in...
Clinical Care
A Medical Sanctuary For Migrant Farmworkers
Patients are never asked about their immigration status, and the staffs have set up protocols in case the offices are...
Why Missouri's The Last Holdout On A Statewide Rx Monitoring Program
Because of ongoing fears about privacy violations tangled up with gun control, the bill never got a full vote in...
Innovation
How Would Ariadne Labs' New Leader Change Healthcare?
Universal health insurance, a focus on the end user, and a change to healthcare financing systems are top priorities for...
Innovation
Asaf Bitton, MD, on Taking the Reins at Ariadne Labs
The influential lab's new leader speaks out about how he will use his background in primary care and a focus...
Dealing With Hospital Closure, Pioneer Kansas Town Asks: What Comes Next?
After depending on the local hospital for more than a century, Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with...