If its waiver is approved, California would become the first state to extend exchange coverage to undocumented immigrants, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Illinois, and Michigan.
A review of newly unearthed documents reveals that the sugar industry in the 1960s paid prominent nutrition researchers to downplay sugar's connection to heart disease and cast blame on saturated fat—a move that may have had a considerable effect on Americans' diets for decades.
HHS on Friday unveiled a final rule that aims to make more clinical trial results available on ClinicalTrials.gov, including information about failed trials.
A bipartisan group of Senate and House lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would require drugmakers to justify price increases of more than 10 percent.
Hospitals and health systems traditionally have offered inpatient palliative care services, but the transition to value-based care models supports shifting those services across the care continuum and into the outpatient setting, says Advisory Board expert Tomi Ogundimu.
Pharmacies kicked off their flu shot campaigns in August, but some experts say patients would be better off waiting to get vaccinated, Julie Appleby reports for Kaiser Health News.
Last week, CBO projected most hospitals will lose money in 2025 if they don't improve productivity, Trump told Dr. Oz he supports covering a "large percentage" of people through Medicaid, and more.
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