Kirk Norris, president and CEO of the Iowa Hospital Association, warns that passage of the AHCA could potentially lead to 200,000 fewer insured Iowans and higher costs for the elderly.
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The term “peer review” often strikes fear in a healthcare practitioner.
HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, on Wednesday said the agency will offer more than $70 million in grants designed to curb rates of opioid-related deaths and expand access to treatment for opioid addiction.
Leaders from the National Institutes of Health outlined a new plan for addressing what has been dubbed the worst drug epidemic in American history by multiple public officials.
The misuse of opiates — heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and fentanyl, among others — represents one of the leading causes of accidental death in the U.S.
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson will host a two-day summit on the opioid epidemic June 15-16 at the University of Washington in Seattle.
While death rates among children have declined largely due to improvements in infant survival, deaths among older children from suicide and accidental poisonings have increased, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics cited in an ABC News report.
A historically low national uninsured rate of about 9 percent puts "insurers in a position of financial and ethical significance to combat the opioid epidemic," according to a report by the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, based at Georgetown University…
More than 4,000 Ohioans died from drug overdoses in 2016, according a survey of county coroner's offices conducted by The Columbus Dispatch.
As of Tuesday morning, 50 patients are reportedly still being treated for injuries after the suicide bombing in Manchester, U.K., last week. Seventeen of those patients remain in critical care, according to a statement from the National Health Service cited…