The best investment Bill Gates has made during his career involves efforts to increase access to vaccines and medicines around the globe, he wrote in an essay for The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16.
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Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health will waive copays for furloughed federal employees and their families who receive emergency care at its 17 hospitals and urgent care centers.
A study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases examined human papillomavirus virus vaccination rates among adolescents.
Five health systems in North Carolina agreed to share risk under a new reimbursement model with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
Taking measures to protect heart health can also help prevent diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetologia.
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Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente announced three initiatives to help secure affordable housing across the system's footprint and help end homelessness Jan. 15.
Lighthouse Health Plan, a physician-led Medicaid health plan in Pensacola, Fla., will begin serving 24,000 patients Feb. 1, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
The World Health Organization will launch its five-year strategic plan at the start of 2019, and kicked it off with a list of the top 10 issues that will "demand attention from WHO and health partners" this year.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will invest $750,000 in a program aimed at addressing the state's primary care physician shortage, the health insurer said Jan. 7.
Cancer patients are more than four times more likely to commit suicide than people who do not have cancer, a study published in Nature Communications found.