Some children now eligible for adult organ transplants.
Number of induced labors for early-term deliveries dropped 12 percent, 2006-2012.
Medical privacy: Let patients opt out of HIPAA and manage their own data.
36 percent increase in global use of antibiotics “alarming“.
Medicare expanding telehealth coverage to include wellness, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis.
Mount Sinai hospital offers iPads to patients to track their stay.
41 percent of U.S. households now own mobile phones only.
Can innovation solve VA waiting list woes? Telemedicine cuts hospital admissions 35 percent.
Smartphone app diagnoses adrenal gland diseases.
Will it ever stop growing? Medicaid added another one million dependents in May.
70 percent of physicians spend more than one day per week on paperwork; up from 58 percent in 2013.
Colorado: 1 in 4 Obamacare enrollees plan to drop out.
Hospital elevator buttons carry more bacteria than toilet seats.
Teen suicide attempts rise as warning cuts medicine use.
The same people who fumbled Obamacare have custody of the flood of illegal immigrant children.
Call your doctor: CMS says telehealth services should cover annual wellness visits, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
A remote control for your birth control.
A simple blood test for Alzheimer’s.
Weight loss: The best medicine for osteoarthritis.
And you thought you were a hoarder: CDC finds smallpox vials from 1950s in FDA storage room.
Poop in a pill: Fecal transplant drug nearing Phase 3 clinical trials.
A problem that self-identifies: Microwave oven that counts calories as it nukes.
What you shouldn’t eat: Instant noodles drive metabolic syndrome (at least in Korean women).
Who would have thought this was the case: Some bee pollen weight loss products are a…scam.
Don’t watch what your workers eat: Non-diet approach to weight management more effective in worksite wellness programs.
However, you can lose weight eating sour milk: Yogurt intake over long term linked to lower risk of becoming overweight.
Less exercise, not more calories, responsible for expanding waistlines.
Should a pharmacist run your corporate fitness program? Sure, it’s yet another job they are infinitely overqualified to perform.
ObamaCare made me fire my doctor.
As health care law’s employer mandate nears, firms cut worker hours, struggle with logistics.
Insurers on New York’s exchange seeking significant rate increases.
Only 25 percent of patients are offered cost estimates before treatment
Injury, violence are leading causes of death for young Americans.
Every single one of 470 senior VA executives was rated “fully successful” or better over four years.
Quitting smoking? There’s an app for that.
Physicians rail at expensive and burdensome re-certification requirements.
Administration claims insurers’ risk-corridor “bailout” is funded by “user fees“.
