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Baligh Yehia, MD. Deputy Under Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, D.C.). In addition to helping the VA transition toward more personalized care models, Dr. Yehia oversees the VA’s Clinically Integrated Network., which has more than…

The global home healthcare market is expected to reach $449.6 billion by 2022, according to Gaithersburg, Md.-based Stratistics Market Research Consulting.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conditionally approved Worcester-based UMass Memorial Medical Center's proposal to close half of its psychiatric beds, according to a telegram.com report.

As rates of heroin and opioid use continue to climb in the U.S., certain communities are seeing flare-ups of HIV and hepatitis C outbreaks as these virus can be passed from user to user via contaminated needles.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will further assess whether the abuse-deterrent properties of certain opioid medications are helping to mitigate the rising rates of opioid addiction, according to an agency statement made Tuesday by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD.

Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards signed three bills into law on Monday collectively aimed at curbing the rising rates of opioid overdoses in Louisiana, according to The Advocate.

Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin will launch an initiative next month to aid pregnant women and new mothers suffering from postpartum depression and substance-abuse disorders, according to a Journal Sentinel report.

A group of experts who gathered for a National Institutes of Health workshop in April 2016 called for more research on identifying and treating opioid misuse disorder in pregnant women and their babies. A summary of the workshop was recently…

Medical interventions for opioid-related diagnosis vary by state, according to a new white paper released by Fair Health, a nonprofit provider of health industry cost information.

The nation's heroin epidemic cost the U.S. approximately $51 billion in 2015, according to a study published in PLOS One.