RSV Vaccine Tied to Fewer Hospitalizations, ED Visits in Older, High-Risk Adults However, questions remain about durability of vaccine protection, expert says Oct 20, 2024
Case Against Perioperative Beta-Blockers Grows Stronger Excess postoperative strokes, and accompanying racial disparities, tied to any beta-blocker use Oct 20, 2024
Retinal Injections May Increase Risk for Cataract Surgery Complications History of injections tied to multiple postop complications, but data open to questioning Oct 20, 2024
Patients Are Relying on Lyft, Uber to Travel Far Distances to Medical Care Some are calling for states to subsidize the expensive trips for rural residents Oct 20, 2024
How Does This Year's Flu Shot Stack Up? Effectiveness appears to be on a downward trend, CDC data suggest Oct 18, 2024
Stroke Survivors Still Prescribed a 'Concerning' Amount of Benzos Red flag in nationwide data despite improvement since 2013 Oct 17, 2024
Continuous Parkinson's Disease Therapy Wins FDA Nod Round-the-clock infusion delivers carbidopa and levodopa pro-drugs Oct 17, 2024
As Election Nears, Trump Is Still Not Sharing Any Health Details If elected, he would be the oldest person to become president Oct 17, 2024
Use of Prior Authorization Up in Medicare Advantage Plans, Senate Report Finds Post-acute care services targeted for coverage denials Oct 17, 2024
Want Electronic Reimbursement? That Will Cost You a 5% Fee. Predatory insurance fees underscore need for physician payment reform Oct 16, 2024
Private Forums Show Canadian Doctors Struggle With Euthanizing Vulnerable Patients Some doctors fear moving forward even with cases that meet nation's legal requirements Oct 16, 2024
Stop the Medicare Payment Cut and Pass a Permanent Fix, House Members Urge Leaders The Medicare fee schedule is "inherently broken," says bipartisan letter from 233 members Oct 15, 2024
Millions of Aging Americans Are Facing Dementia by Themselves "I will not survive this in the end -- I know that," says one patient Oct 15, 2024
Docs Demand Trump's Medical Records; Anesthesiologist's Sex Crimes; Daily Loneliness Health news and commentary gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 15, 2024
CHEST Roundup: Diabetes in RA Patients Ups Risk of Interstitial Lung Disease Plus: nalbuphine for IPF cough and AI for reducing lung allograft discards Oct 14, 2024
Protein Drivers of Heart Attack Risk Disproportionately Affect Women Study suggests mechanistic underpinnings of known sex disparities in MI Oct 14, 2024
Alzheimer's Drug in Smaller Vial Sizes Could Save Medicare Hundreds of Millions Nearly 6% of lecanemab may be discarded each year Oct 14, 2024
Hospitals Unhappy With New Requirement to Report Bed Capacity and COVID Count One group calls it "needlessly heavy-handed" Oct 14, 2024
Older Men's Connections Often Wither When They're on Their Own Nearly one in four men over 75 live alone, leaving them vulnerable to depression and suicide Oct 13, 2024
Weekend Warrior Benefits; Time-Restricted Eating and Metabolic Syndrome Also in TTHealthWatch: menopause hormone therapy in the U.S. Oct 12, 2024 podcast
Payments to Medicare Plan Brokers Need Reform, MedPAC Says No preferential treatment should be given for enrolling people in Medicare Advantage, they argue Oct 11, 2024
Loneliness Tied to Alzheimer's and Dementia Risk Feeling lonely also linked with cognitive impairment that's not dementia, meta-analysis shows Oct 11, 2024
Safety Data Favor Diuretic Strategy Triggered by Cardiac Monitoring Alerts in HF Effectiveness of this personalized approach now under investigation Oct 11, 2024
MedPAC Commissioners Pan Some Medicare Advantage Plans' 'Extra Benefits' Services cost Medicare an extra $83B in 2024; are debit cards and groceries really healthcare? Oct 11, 2024
Elamipretide for Barth Syndrome Survives FDA Advisory Vote Panelists acknowledge difficulty generating stronger data in ultra-rare disease Oct 11, 2024
CMS Unveils Sample $2 Generic Drug List for Medicare Part D Enrollees But experts are skeptical the list would have much impact Oct 09, 2024
One Way to Spot Early Cognitive Decline? Medicare Wellness Visits Annual evaluation tied to timelier mild cognitive impairment diagnoses Oct 09, 2024
Certain Arm Positions Can Lead to Inaccurate Blood Pressure Readings Important to educate patients conducting home measurements, says researcher Oct 08, 2024 video
Fla. Hospitals Evacuate; Man Charged in Indian Doctor's Death; Life Expectancy Limit Health news and commentary gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 08, 2024
Harris Correct That Trump Fell Short on Promise to Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices KFF Health News and PolitiFact evaluate claims Oct 05, 2024
Doctors Cut Back on Seeing Medicare Patients as Another Pay Cut Looms Those still seeing Medicare patients struggle to stay in private practice Oct 04, 2024
Metabolic Accelerator Shows Promise for Weight Loss Side of Obesity-HFpEF Equation Benefit in symptoms, functional outcomes remains to be seen for HU6 Oct 02, 2024
Some Epilepsy Drugs Tied to Cardiovascular Events in Older People Link likely due to enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications Oct 02, 2024
Exercise, Education to Relieve Knee OA: Mixed Results in Modeling Study Only limited value when costs are considered, study suggests Oct 01, 2024
Doctors Less Likely to Support Broader Access to Cannabis Than Pain Patients A majority of respondents were supportive of increasing education for providers, however Oct 01, 2024 video
Mavacamten Shows Promise in Heart Failure With Normal to Supranormal EF Cardiac myosin inhibitor linked to improvements in biomarkers in small study Sep 30, 2024
Falling May Be a Harbinger of Dementia in Older Adults Injurious falls upped the risk of a new Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis 1 year later Sep 30, 2024
In Diagnosing Knee Pain, Sometimes More Is More MRI does occasionally reveal important findings missed on x-ray Sep 30, 2024
Case Strengthens for Cardiac Myosin Inhibitor in SEQUOIA-HCM Vast majority of trial participants responded to aficamten Sep 30, 2024