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Medical devices

DARPA wants to chat with 1 million neurons through brain-computer interface program | Medcity News

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research into neural-interface technologies that could help people overcome blindness, deafness, and other sensory deficits.

Information technology

HHS OIG to audit improper EHR incentive payments to hospitals | Health Data Management

CMS paid $14.6 billion in EHR incentive payments to hospitals between 2011 and 2016. OIG auditors will look for overpayments and will likely report on what it finds in fiscal year 2018.

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Latinos left out of clinical trials...and possible cures | Kaiser Health News

Researchers lack information about drugs' effects in Latino populations, since under 8 percent of those enrolled in clinical trials are Latino.

Brain scans may change care for some people with memory loss | ABC

PET scans could affect treatment of memory problems, according to new research that's part of an investigation of whether Medicare should reimburse for the amyloid-detecting scans.

Pharmaceuticals

Former employee testifies Shkreli threatened him and his family | The New York Times

In a letter to the wife of one of his then-employees, Martin Shkreli wrote, "I hope to see and your four children homeless. I will do whatever I can to assure this." That letter is now evidence in the "pharma bro" Shkreli's trial for securities fraud.

In other news

Mighty T. rex 'walked rather than sprinted' | BBC

T. rexes may not have been the predators we've long mythologized, since they were likely unable to run. If they had tried, their legs would have broken under the heft of their bodies. This is according to a new computer simulation researchers used to study how T. rex may have moved.