Mark Jones learned about the costs and benefits of healthcare delivery when he treated AIDS patients in Key West, Florida, in the late 1980s. The pharmacy he co-founded—unusual at the time—provided a humane last step for gay men who didn't want to spend their final weeks confined to a... FULL STORY »
An experimental Eli Lilly and Co. lung cancer drug, which some investors had given up on due to past setbacks, extended patient survival in a late-stage study, reviving hopes for the medicine and sending company shares 4% higher. FULL STORY »
The United States has spent a lot of time and money to digitize healthcare records, but the effort has not gotten very far yet. Electronic health records in the United States are supposed to take full effect by 2015. Without that technical backbone, the promise of the Patient Protection and... FULL STORY »
A premature baby born at high altitude faces challenges uncommon among newborns in Denver that often can't be treated by rural physicians. But expanded technology is helping beam the expertise of neonatal specialists in the city into critical-care situations at 33 remote hospitals in Colorado,... FULL STORY »
By Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
A state court has ruled in favor of healthcare providers who say Pennsylvania officials made them pay too much money into a medical malpractice insurance fund. The Commonwealth Court ruled the state was wrong to require doctors and other providers to contribute to a reserve when the fund carried... FULL STORY »
The Obama administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the reform law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own healthcare. FULL STORY »
By Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
With the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act—the most sweeping changes in the nation's healthcare system since the passage of Medicare in 1965—taking effect in just under five months, family physicians are sweating out the slow rollout of the law's regulations. FULL STORY »
In California, with its many underserved ethnic populations, the need for a multicultural health care workforce will be particularly great, as uninsured people sign up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, experts say. FULL STORY »
Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkiller OxyContin has compiled a database of hundreds of doctors suspected of recklessly prescribing its pills to addicts and drug dealers, but has done little to alert law enforcement or medical authorities. FULL STORY »
By The Republic (Columbus, Ind.) | August 12, 2013
The expanding number of doctors offering appointments through videoconferencing, called telemedicine, is expected to see a sharp increase in Kentucky. FULL STORY »
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