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Mental health advocates worry psychiatric patients will be sent to jail instead of receiving care and treatment...new law making it a felony to commit acts of violence in North Carolina hospitals...legislation is intended as a bulwark against attacks on hospital workers, which make up 75 percent of workplace violence cases and are currently on the rise,...

Food and Drug Administration…held a public meeting on the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act…"PDUFA VI can play a critical role in continuing to advance an effective, science-based U.S. regulatory review program that helps ensure that biopharmaceutical companies can continue to bring innovative medicines to patients,"..

Phony applicants that investigators signed up last year under President Barack Obama’s health care law got automatically re-enrolled for 2015 and some were rewarded with even bigger taxpayer subsidies for their insurance premiums, ..The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says 11 counterfeit characters that its investigators created last year were automatically re-enrolled for this year by HealthCare.gov.

Find Nursing Home Problems in Your State...Use this (interactive) tool to compare nursing homes in a state based on the deficiencies cited by regulators and the penalties imposed in the past three years. You can also search over 60,000 nursing home inspection reports to look for trends or patterns…

Healthcare stocks are having a big year, with July’s King v. Burwell ruling putting them over the top…"There’s renewed confidence that a majority of patients who come in for care will have health insurance, lessening the burden of uncompensated care,"....

Department of Health and Human Services today launched the first online collection of the federal resources and capabilities available to mitigate the health impacts of emergencies....to aid state, tribal, territorial, local officials in health and emergency management as they guide communities in responding to and recovering from disasters.

Pharmacy majors receive the second-highest median earnings among bachelor’s degree holders. Petroleum engineering was named the highest-earning major, with an average annual wage of $135,754. Pharmacy majors notched the next slot, at $113,000.

Reps. Rosa DeLauro...Jan Schakowsky..spoke out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is being negotiated later this month, because of its propensity to restrict access to generic medicines…"That's less competition for big pharma, increased cost for Medicare and Medicaid, higher prices for families who are buying medicines and health insurance,"

Greek debt crisis this past few weeks has understandably been about what this will mean for the financial system,.. another storyline that is starting to emerge as it becomes more apparent that there is no good way out of the crisis for the Greeks...could be entering a health crisis, too.

Some facilities fail to properly oversee Coumadin. Too much can cause bleeding; too little, clots. Nursing homes are “a perfect setup for bad things happening,” one expert says. .. Given Coumadin’s challenges — and the coordination required among doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratories – nursing homes are the “perfect setup for bad things happening,”...