The number of people with substance use disorder receiving treatment are on the rise, according to a survey from HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Becker's Hospital Review reported these eight contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Aug. 13, beginning with the most recent.
Mark Zuckerberg is selling $13 billion in Facebook stock to fund a new goal: curing, preventing or managing all diseases "in our children's lifetime," CNBC reports.
Humana and Iora Health, a Boston-based network of primary care clinics, expanded their valued-based contract a fifth year, the companies said Sept. 12.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is creating health insurance products to network with providers nationwide, the health system said Sept. 13.
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The New York City Council and Board of Health voted Sept. 12 to include a third gender category on birth certificates for individuals who do not identify as male or female, NBC News reports.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health $20.5 million to study adolescent reproductive health, according to The Baltimore Sun.
The National Institutes of Health awarded New York City-based New York University more than $65 million over the next five years to study how environmental factors influence children's health, according to a press release.
The World Health Organization released a new suicide prevention toolkit Sept. 10 in accordance with World Suicide Prevention Day.
Imagine yourself as an American citizen performing job responsibilities overseas, and suddenly you have an urgent or emergent medical need. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Going Global: How MedStar Georgetown University Hospital helps coordinate international patient care.