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New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches
The 63-year-old chief executive couldn't do his job. He had been crippled by migraine headaches throughout his adult life and was in the middle of a new string of attacks. “I have but a little moment in the morning in which I can either read, write or think,” he wrote to a friend. After that, he had to shut himself up in a dark room until night. So President Thomas Jefferson, in the early spring of 1807, during his second...
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Obamacare Insurers Sweeten Plans With Free Doctor Visits
Health insurers in several big cities will take some pain out of doctor visits in 2016. The plans will offer free visits to primary care doctors in their networks.
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Oregon greenlights pharmacist-prescribed birth control
Pharmacists in Oregon are now permitted to prescribe birth control pills to qualifying women as part of a wave of new state laws for 2016. Oregon is the first U.S. state to put such a law into effect, with California reportedly looking to follow suit. A doctor's approval is no longer needed for a supply of pills, although experts urge women not to overlook preventative health care in the form of doctor visits.
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Promising New Cancer Treatment Clears Key FDA Hurdle: ‘As Simple as a Flu Shot’
Recent FDA approval of initial testing on a new, individually customized cancer treatment at Baylor Hospital in Texas could bring new hope to the lives of millions struggling to fight the disease. The new course of action replaces chemotherapy with a simple, monthly injection. The innovative program is a radical departure from traditional thinking that attempted to “cure” a patient’s cancer. Instead, doctors and researchers at Baylor’s Mary Crowley Cancer Center are...
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The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in India
Outsiders don’t want their daughters to marry any local boys, according to the village elders swapping stories in a tailor’s shop behind the Sikh temple, because most residents are infected with black jaundice. That’s what they call hepatitis C, which is so common in parts of India’s Punjab state that the tailor-shop gossips might not be off base in their estimate. But prevalence could be something of an advantage these days. Drugmakers have made the village...
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Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine
An Oregon medical center’s plan to increase efficiency by outsourcing doctors drove a group of its hospitalists to fight back by banding together. By Noam Scheiber.
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Obamacare is here to stay. Just look at Kentucky
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin stormed into office promising to kill off the state’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion immediately. By Sarah Kliff.
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UK doctors strike for first time in decades
Arbitration talks are expected to resume later this week.
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Implant to treat opioid addiction gets green light from FDA advisors
Four tiny, implantable rods that steadily ooze drugs could help some patients kick opioid addictions, an advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration concluded Tuesday. With a 12 to 5 vote, the committee of medical experts recommended that the regulatory agency approve the implantable device for use—and the agency often follows such advice. If approved, the treatment would debut amid a national epidemic of addictions and overdoses involving...
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Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth in Refusing to Give Records to Lawmakers
Martin Shkreli, reviled former chief executive officer at Turing Pharmaceuticals, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to produce documents subpoenaed by a Senate committee investigating drug-pricing practices, the panel's chairwoman said Wednesday. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said on Twitter that the investigation by the Senate Special Committee on Aging could be hindered without Shkreli's cooperation.
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Scientists claim 'extraordinary' success with treatment using immune cells to target cancer
Early trials of a potential cancer treatment in which white blood cells are modified to target certain types of the disease have been an extraordinary success, scientists said Monday.
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When the Hospital Fires the Bullet
More and more hospital guards across the country carry weapons. For Alan Pean, seeking help for mental distress, that resulted in a gunshot to the chest. By Elisabeth Rosenthal. (Feb. 12)
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Where Are the 2016 Candidates on Health Care?
Are markets or more government are the answer?
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This Heart in a Jar Could Make Heart Transplants Safer
What looks like a prop from a steampunk movie is actually a partially decellularised heart in a bioreactor.
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1 in 4 seniors have superbugs on their hands after a hospital stay, new research finds
One in four seniors is bringing along stowaways from the hospital to their next stop: superbugs on their hands. Moreover, seniors who go to a nursing home or other post-acute care facility will continue to acquire new superbugs during their stay, according to findings made by University of Michigan researchers published today in a JAMA Internal Medicine research letter. The study focused on patients who have recently been...
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Two more healthcare networks caught up in US outbreak of hospital ransomware
New server-targeting malware hitting healthcare targets with unpatched websites. By Sean Gallagher.
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Vitamin D 'heals damaged hearts'
Vitamin D supplements may help people with diseased hearts, a study suggests. A trial on 163 heart failure patients found supplements of the vitamin, which is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight, improved their hearts' ability to pump blood around the body. The Leeds Teaching Hospitals team, who presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, described the results as "stunning".
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MDMA Could Be Sold as a Legal, FDA-Approved Drug in Just 5 Years
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is one of the leaders behind the modern-day psychedelic research movement, and the scientists who have been heading the research investigating the therapeutic benefits of MDMA say that the drug could be an FDA-approved medicine in just 5 years. In a MAPS video, Iraq war veteran Tony Macie discusses his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and experience with standard therapy versus psychedelic therapy.
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Flexible spinal cord implants will let paralyzed people walk
Doctors dream of helping the paralzyed walk through implants that stimulate their spinal cords, but current technology makes that impossible; these stiff, unnatural gadgets usually end up damaging or inflaming nervous tissue over time. Swiss researchers may have just solved this problem once and for all, though. Their bendy e-Dura implant combines flexible electrodes (made of platinum and silicon microbeads), cracked gold electronic tracks and fluidic microchannels to deliver both...
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Obamacare to launch new payment scheme
It's the the largest-ever initiative to transform primary care in America.
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