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(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- A month-long structured yoga program helped patients with cancer improve mood disturbance, anxiety, and fatigue, contributing to a reduction in insomnia, a large multicenter randomized trial showed. Scores on tests...
Read full article →Rising costs are eroding Americans’ trust in their commercial plans despite an industry-wide push to increase consumer satisfaction, the analytics firm found.
Read full article →New Mexico-based health system Presbyterian Healthcare Services will discontinue most of its Medicare Advantage plans, a spokesperson confirmed to Fierce Healthcare.
Read full article →A plan to raise the floor for foreign workers' wages, intended to bolster hiring of American workers, threatens to raise costs and reduce labor supply for healthcare employers, particularly in rural and underserved areas, industry sources say.
Read full article →The report is focused on five key areas, including improving individual and community health, reducing administrative waste and transforming care delivery.
Read full article →An influential conservative think tank contends that a quarter of all ObamaCare exchange enrollments were improper, adding more fuel to claims from the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers that the exchanges are rife with fraud. The Paragon Health Institute's report found more than 6 million people were improperly enrolled in the health law’s exchanges in 2026. The report also argued taxpayers will improperly subsidize the Affordable Care Act program by nearly $25...
Read full article →Options abound for hospitals looking to capitalize on these new data transfer technologies, but so do potential pitfalls. For any hospital considering adopting these new solutions, here are some of the key questions and considerations that should be top of mind. The post New Technology is Revolutionizing Clinical Trial Data Management — Here’s How Research Hospitals Can Seize the Moment appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Rural healthcare has always run on ingenuity, resilience, and community trust. What has too often been missing is the infrastructure strong enough to match that and sustain it at scale. That is what makes this moment different. The post Building the Backbone of Rural Health: Meeting the Reality on the Ground appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Portable gluten detection tools are not a substitute for standard care. Used carefully, they may help clinicians support patients when hidden gluten exposure remains a problem. The post The Celiac Care Gap Begins After Diagnosis appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →[Sponsored] A webinar sponsored by Verato and scheduled for June 17 from 1 pm to 2 pm ET will explore how a unified identity strategy, spanning patients, providers, and emerging solutions enable accurate attribution, strengthens interoperability, and ultimately drives VBC success. The post Building a Unified Identity Strategy so Interoperability for Value-Based Care Can Succeed appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: Brittany Trang analyzes the pope's encyclical on artificial intelligence for takeaways relevant for health care.
Read full article →New guidance for gene therapy developers, Lilly's deal for kidney drugs, and more biotech news from The Readout
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