Steven Ross Johnson
“Experts say the rising costs and demand for home healthcare services will make it less affordable for many older adults to pay for the services long term.
Richard Johnson, a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., said there are strong indicators the current methods for financing long-term care are leading to a crisis in the coming years that will make such services unaffordable for those most in need.”
By Ciara Linnane
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administrationconducted its first-ever hearing on cannabis and its nonintoxicating ingredient CBD all day Friday with more than 100 speakers offering views, including researchers, health professionals, advocates, manufacturers and opponents”
“For a hospital that had once labored to break even, Wheeling Hospital displayed abnormally deep pockets when recruiting doctors.
To lure Dr. Adam Tune, an anesthesiologist from nearby Pittsburgh who specialized in pain management, the Catholic hospital built a clinic for him to run on its campus in Wheeling, W.Va. It paid Tune as much as $1.2 million a year — well above the salaries of 90% of pain management physicians across the nation, the federal government charged in a lawsuit filed this spring.”
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
“Now a new study, presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago on Sunday, describes a treatment approach specifically for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who had a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.”
By Apoorva Mandavill
“Trials of vaccines and treatments have not included enough female participants. Now that scientists are exploring possible cures, the need to enroll women is greater than ever.”
“Boastful on the occasion of Memorial Day, President Donald Trump and his Veterans Affairs secretary are claiming full credit for health care improvements that were underway before they took office.x
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