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Around the nation: Cancer Discovery journal editor-in-chief resigns

José Baselga on Wednesday resigned from his position as an editor-in-chief of Cancer Discovery, following a review of his lapses in disclosing conflicts of interest in medical journal articles, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

California/Illinois: Walgreens and Verily, the science arm of Alphabet, have partnered on an initiative to combat chronic diseases. The initiative will make Walgreens the first choice for retail commercialization of all products made by Verily, and will specifically focus on medication adherence (Truong, MedCity News, 12/19).

Maryland: LifeBridge Health and Union Hospital of Cecil County have called off merger negotiations. The two hospitals in January had signed a letter of intent to merge, but they have since decided future revenue for Union Hospital under Maryland's hospital reimbursement system was uncertain and ended the negotiations (Ellison, Becker's Hospital Review, 12/19).

Pennsylvania: José Baselga on Wednesday resigned from his position as an editor-in-chief of Cancer Discovery, following a review of his lapses in disclosing conflicts of interest in medical journal articles. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the journal's publisher, said a panel of experts and the organization's board had determined that "Baselga did not adhere to the high standards pertaining to conflict of interest disclosures that the AACR expects of its leadership." Baselga in his resignation letter thanked AACR for its "deliberate and thorough review" and said he takes "great heart from the panel’s finding that my failure to disclose was inadvertent." Baselga in September resigned from his position as CMO of Memorial Sloan Kettering following a news investigation that he had not disclosed millions of dollars in industry payments in researcher articles (Orstein/Thomas, New York Times/ProPublica, 12/19).

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The 10 leading causes of death for US children, charted

Injury is the leading cause of death among U.S. children, and the injury-related death rates are far outpacing those of other developed countries, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Cigna closes $67B deal to buy Express Scripts. Here's our take.

Cigna on Thursday officially closed on its $67 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, completing the merger of two companies that had more than $141 billion in revenues in 2017.

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House passes CR that would fund FDA, Indian Health Service—and Trump's border wall

President Trump on Thursday told House Republican leaders that he would not sign a Senate-passed short-term spending bill that would fund seven departments and various agencies, including FDA, because it did not include funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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'Fake medical news' has a 'body count,' one doctor warns. Here’s how to fight back.

In today's Google-savvy society, patients often turn to the internet for answers to their health care questions, but "medical lies tend to spread further than truths on the internet—and they have very real repercussions," Haider Warraich, a fellow in heart failure and transplantation at Duke University Medical Center, writes in a New York Times opinion piece.

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'Nope.' (And other brutally honest out-of-office replies.)

Before you set that out-of-office message for your holiday travels, take a look at these frank responses for inspiration—or, perhaps, for examples of what to avoid.

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'A strange time in the hospital': Inside a melancholy, joyful Christmas week on the ward

Few people would choose to spend Christmas week away from their families and in a hospital, but "for all its pain and misery," the hospital "often imposes a kind of downtime that creates a space for the reflection we forgo in our daily lives," Dhruv Khullar, a physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, writes for the New York Times' "Well."

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The little-known way consumers could challenge surprise medical bills in court

Many consumers get hit with surprise medical bills that can cost them thousands of dollars, but some legal experts believe consumers should be protected from surprise bills under provisions of contract law, Julie Appleby writes for Kaiser Health News.

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