Laurie Toich, Assistant Editor

Patients without paid sick leave 40% less likely to have their cholesterol checked.

HR 1316 would require PBMs to disclose generic drug pricing information.

Alexa can provide instructions for CPR, and the signs of heart attack and stroke.

Children who were exposed to anti-epileptic drugs only had 3% more contacts to their physicians than un-exposed children.

Chronic exposure to air pollution may have a wide-reaching impact on children’s health.

Depletion of a specific protein can lead to a respiratory symptoms of asthma.

African American patients are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer and have higher mortality.

Physicians should discuss the potential uses, benefits, and side effects of herbal medications with their patients.

Premenopausal African American women with a p35 mutation may be at a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

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Fixed and price-linked subsidies called into question.

Liraglutide reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 80%.

Gulf War illness affects 25% of soldiers who served during the Gulf War.

Maryland allocates an additional $50 million over 5 years to combat opioid misuse.

Newly-discovered microbial products shown to impact a protein used in certain cancer treatments.

Although scalp-cooling caps reduce hair loss, insurers do not cover the treatment.

Some patients may not benefit from strict blood sugar control.

Doxycycline was seen to mutate E. coli in a way that leads to producing colonies 3 times larger.

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Patients with type 2 diabetes more likely to experience signs of kidney, nerve, and eye diseases.

Study finds syringe services outreach should be more focused on whites, who now make up a large portion of injection drug users.

Patients found to be more likely to seek treatment with medical marijuana than opioids.

Improved blood glucose control was elicited from the transplantation of reprogrammed pancreatic cells.

Enasidenib is a targeted inhibitor of mutated isocitate dehydrogenase.

Carcinoid syndrome affects some patients with carcinoid tumors.

Physicians must become more concerned with weight gain side effects of drugs for patients with obesity.

Xermelo plus somatostatin analog therapy approved to treat carcinoid diarrhea syndrome.

Combination therapy shows promise treating pancreatic cancer.

Nab-paclitaxel prevents proliferation, and increases immune system response to cancer cells.

Top news of the day from across the healthcare landscape.