Swaddling and SIDS: What to Know
Generations of parents have swaddled their babies, but a new study concluded that the practice might increase the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Or does it? Shortly after the study was published in the...
Study Says Virus Transmission Could Drop 40% if High-Risk Gay Men are Given HIV...
Pre-exposure prophylactic use of HIV drugs by high-risk gay men could reduce virus transmission by 40%, according to a study published in The Lancet. Designed for those without HIV, the drug known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis...
Obama Administration Announces Plan to Address Opioid and Heroin Abuse Epidemic
In response to a fast-growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, President Obama announced new initiatives designed to enable doctors to more easily use anti-addiction drugs. The White House will allow physicians to prescribe...
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...
Insurance Providers Merge, Change U.S. Healthcare Market
The recent news that Anthem, California’s largest healthcare provider, will purchase insurance giant Cigna for nearly $50 billion caps off an extended period of mergers among America’s biggest healthcare companies. Earlier in July, a deal...
What’s Next for the AHCA?
As the dust settled Thursday afternoon and evening on the U.S. House of Representatives’ 217-213 vote to approve the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the American people and the healthcare industry braced themselves for...
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...
Lowering Your Cancer Risks on Your Lunch Break
We’ve never had more reason to exercise. Every time you turn on the television, listen to the radio, or surf the web, there’s someone with a PhD and a white coat talking about LDLs, triglycerides,...
Heroin Death Rates Increasing for Middle-Aged White Americans
In this age of advanced medicine and health consciousness, death rates are falling in the United States. Every age group, racial group and ethnic group are living longer and healthier lives – except one. A...
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...