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Docs still don’t get MACRA
Just 1 in 10 said they were deeply knowledgeable about the value-based payment plam.
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Medicaid expansion produced opposing cost effects
Did the states that expanded enrollment in 2014 spend more or less?
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Poll: Most voters oppose House and Senate health care bills
June polling shows little backing for provisions in the GOP reform bills.
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Clearer instructions linked to fewer medication dosing errors
Confusion over text-only instructions leads to more dosing errors.
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Boston Children’s Hospital tops annual ranking
U.S. News & World Report names the leading children’s hospitals for 2017-2018.
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Childhood asthma linked to high LV mass later
A history of childhood asthma correlates with high left ventricular mass, a prominent indicator of cardiac damage, in asymptomatic healthy young...
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Study shows that 20% of inpatients given antibiotics develop adverse reactions
Twenty percent of hospitalized adults given antibiotics develop adverse drug events, including GI, nephrotoxic, hematologic, cardiac, and...
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ACIP approves new influenza vaccine recommendations
New flu vaccine recommendations focus on children and pregnant women.
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Senate health care proposal already facing uphill battle
Without support from all GOP senators, the plan as written could be DOA.
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Dietary carbohydrate and glycemic load linked to acne
A study of adults provides evidence linking dietary carbohydrate consumption to acne.
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If doctors recommend it, teens are more likely to get HPV vaccine
You recommend it, teens get it.