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new study showing mammograms might not reduce breast cancer deaths doesn’t change the advice of Southern Nevada doctors who say women should screen themselves on a regular basis...“Mammograms remain our most important diagnostic tool to detect breast cancers at the earliest stage,...In Nevada, 1,700 women will be newly diagnosed each year, and 150 will die.

Food and Drug Administration’s failure to protect the 170 million Americans who take prescription drugs from adverse reactions that are killing more than 2,400 people every week…. recommendations that would reduce drug development costs and ensure that drugs are only approved if they are safe and significantly more effective…

Defense Health Agency has picked Cerner to replace the Military Health System's anatomic pathology laboratory information system...'We understand the value of providing the DoD with the best healthcare IT solutions possible'..

number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade,..think the increase was driven by people switching from opioid painkillers to cheaper heroin...

Hospitals say the Government Accountability Office used faulty methodology when it found that some providers abuse a federal drug discount by overprescribing medications. HHS raised similar concerns about the findings...

Delaware..to require health insurers to pay for telemedicine after ..governor approved an updated law regulating the virtual services… prohibiting insurers from engaging in discriminatory practices against providers who use telemedicine to deliver care.

FDA said…that more than 700 adverse reactions have been reported by the World Health Organization in Central Africa of patients who took medication that was marked diazepam but which lab testing showed contained instead the active ingredient, haloperidol,…

Governor took…step forward in leveling the playing field for pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers,…reforms are intended to rein in dramatic underpayments to pharmacies by insurers and PBMs.

emergency departments occupy a critical position in the American health care system,.. provider of last resort.. subsidies…inadequately ensures the provision of emergency capacity and care for the uninsured,…undermining the ability of specialty hospitals and physician offices to compete for the provision of elective care.

whistleblower’s lawsuit has culminated in a pharmacy’s $2.5 million settlement for its improper Medicaid billings….lawsuit alleged that Trinity Homecare, which is owned by Walgreens…encouraged infusion drugs for its hemophilia patients and presented claims to Medicaid for unnecessary or excessive quantities…