Prescription Drug Spending in U.S. Expected to Reach $400 Billion by 2020
As the availability and increasing variety of prescription medicines continues to grow, a new study estimates that the annual amount paid for drugs in the United States will top $400 billion in four years...
Scientists Invent 3D Printer Capable of Creating Human-Scale Body Parts and Tissues
There’s been a leap forward in medicine at Wake Forest University, as researchers at the school’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have developed a 3D printer capable of creating human-scale tissues that can survive transplants...
Physical Therapy Named One of the Best Health Jobs of 2015
Healthcare jobs are booming across the board. With an aging population that will likely require greater access to medical treatments of all types, jobs are being created in healthcare at a rate that far...
Hospital Quality Ratings Delayed after Calls from Congress
Federal hospital quality ratings slated to be released in April were postponed until at least July after the hospital industry and Congress pressed for a delay. The delay occurred one day before the Centers for...
Task Force Recommends Depression Screenings for Pregnant Women and New Mothers
All adults should be screened for depression – especially pregnant women and new mothers. That’s the conclusion of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which recently published its recommendations in The Journal of the American...
World Tuberculosis Day Raises Public Awareness of the Deadly Disease
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest diseases in the world, infecting approximately one-third of the world’s population. On March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced the...
Massachusetts House Unanimously Passes Bill to Combat Opioid Addiction Crisis
Opioid addiction has become a national problem, but government officials in Massachusetts are being more specific in their observations. They’re using words like “crisis” and “epidemic” when describing the prevalence of opioid abuse in...
Electronic Health Record Optimization Reduces Automatic Testing and Cuts Costs
Preventing an electronic health record system (EHR) from automatically ordering daily lab tests without a review process can save a large hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a new study published in...
Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Liver Damage Caused by Alcohol Consumption
Coffee has never been more popular. There are coffee shops on every corner, espresso machines on every kitchen counter. We have cold brew, drip, French press, percolated, iced, instant, with milk, without milk, canned,...
Unpublished Study Shakes Up Dietary Guideline Thinking
Forty years ago, while the United States was preparing for the Bicentennial celebration, Minnesota researchers were studying the impact of dietary health guidelines and concluding that conventional wisdom on the subject might be wrong. For...