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Physician groups are seeking a delay for a new Medicare demonstration model. The model debuts January 1 and requires doctors treating low back pain and congestive heart failure to meet performance standards or face payment penalties. That means those physicians could see payment consequences tied to the standards if the model starts on schedule.
Regulators approved asundexian, marketed as Sunharbo, as the first factor XIa inhibitor for secondary stroke prevention. The FDA announced the decision on Monday; the drug is an oral, direct, small-molecule inhibitor of FXIa. The excerpt does not state how this changes care for patients.
Physician-led value-based care keeps physicians in charge of proactive primary care, per a piece on prevention between visits. Prevention happens between visits and rarely gets paid for.
Christian Kohler resigned as the American Diabetes Association's vice president of publications amid an ongoing boycott of the organization. He had been with the ADA for 22 years and expressed profound disappointment. The excerpt does not state what changes for readers.
HealthQ observed a 22-year-old consult an independent assister about buying health insurance. The assister’s help is free of charge. People who find buying health insurance overwhelming can use such free help to figure it out.
(MedPage Today) -- Routinely used vaccines in the U.S. are very safe, but questions about potential adverse events still require thorough, credible investigations. Daniel Salmon, PhD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
Public health experts are developing approaches to promote firearm safety among older gun owners. They focus especially on situations where cognitive decline is suspected.
Argenx acquired Unnatural Products for $550 million, adding a macrocyclic peptide discovery platform for oral peptide drugs. The deal introduces a modality new to Argenx, whose immunology research had centered on antibodies.
Former Trump officials aired a public feud over alleged corruption in public health policymaking. The spat is the latest front in Republicans' postelection recriminations and has exposed fault lines within the MAHA movement.
Trump administration officials delayed second-year Rural Health Transformation Program awards, leaving states uncertain about their funding amounts. State leaders had already scrambled to claim and spend first-year shares of the five-year, $50 billion fund and now lack notice of their next allocation.
Researchers at Mount Sinai received a $4 million NIH grant to build AI models that predict acute kidney injury risk. Acute kidney injury is a common and sometimes serious surgical complication, and the models aim to identify patients most at risk. Providers could then offer individualized preventive care.
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